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"The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent"
"... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending."
"... Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved about .. that's what he's famous for, but his first Les Paul was a Custom like mine ... I can remember he played a Gretsch before that"
"God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge."
"In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it."
"Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first."
"It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass."
"Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor."
"At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous."
"It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all."
"Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots."
"When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet."
"At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection."
"People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim."
"Most agents hate prologues. Just make the first chapter relevant and well written."
"First ambitions are best. We are less brave later."
"I first had money for investment just at the time of the 2008 crisis and shares have been highly volatile since then. So I do have shares in my pension but I have tended to invest in specific projects that include property and private companies that have been very well researched by my advisers."
"I really hate heights. I always like to live on the first floor."
"I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something."
"My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story."
