"Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession."
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"Try it first And you'll see its a blessing And it's not a curse"
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"It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things"
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"The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler."
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"I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV."
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"That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think."
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"Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices."
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"The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel."
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"I first came across her [Bae Suah] when I read some elderly male critic castigating her for 'doing violence to the Korean language', which of course was catnip to me, especially as I'd recently discovered Lispector doing pretty much the same to Portuguese."
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"Our first-year list is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (translated by Arunava Sinha), Hwang Jung-eun (translated by Jung Yewon), and Khairani Barokka."
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"At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be."
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"When I first heard the term 'training bra,' I was freaked out. I was pretty young and I said, 'Did you just say training bra? They're training their chests? I had no idea.' See some lady, her boobs are everywhere. 'What's her deal?' Those are untrained titties."
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"Sometimes I like to go outside without even checking the weather first."
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"I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it."
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"Usually my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it."
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"The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others."
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"The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place"
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"My focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness."
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"I don't need to be born again. I got it right the first time."
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"I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’"
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