"I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep."
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"Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing."
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"The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not."
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"To get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation that there is an appetite for this content in the mainstream public, not just the erudite public. So we're all completely thrilled by it."
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"When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and look at them as these strange and wonderful artifacts."
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"Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far."
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"I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the second. It is time to stop; the potion is losing its magic."
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"First of all, let's get one thing straight: fitness and exercise aren't the same thing. You can exercise without getting fit, but you can't get fit without exercise."
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"There are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first."
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"The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me."
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"The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well."
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"It is said that Indians were sometimes named for the first thing they saw when they were born. Makes you wonder why there aren't more Indians named Hairy Pussy, doesn't it?"
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"The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes."
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"Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it."
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"As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like."
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"I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond."
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"I like to work half a day. I don't care if it is the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours."
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"I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through."
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"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject."
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"Fear first created the gods."
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