"Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream."
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"This day I breathed first: time is come round, And where I did begin there shall I end; My life is run his compass."
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"When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows"
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"The first cuckoo's melancholy cry."
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"Every time you make a movie it's a new and different experience. You learn very little from the past. So, I'm a little bit better than I was when I first started."
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"I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first."
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"He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon."
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"They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others."
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"When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off."
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"Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place."
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"Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time."
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"If your first scene doesn't give you a hard on, throw it out!"
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"The first point of courtesy must always be truth."
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"It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine."
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"It is our first duty to serve society."
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"The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear."
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"The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered."
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"Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains."
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"I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down."
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"I don't think I've ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up."
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