"To have more, we must first become more."
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"Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species."
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"Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the "Normal" environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio."
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"My first cut that I showed the studio was probably 2hrs 20min."
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"If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat."
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"A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator."
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"First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others."
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"Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages."
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"Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy."
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"The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later."
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"I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold."
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"When I was really young, I gravitated towards the visual arts first. I feel that's what comes most naturally to me. I've always had an immediate proclivity towards making visual art and I was a really tactile kid."
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"This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again."
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"feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when."
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"I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city."
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"It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life.... up until then, it had been all glib and throwaway."
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"The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC."
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"You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter."
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"Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth."
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"For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have."
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