"No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first."
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"I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place."
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"Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again."
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"Just because no one has ever gotten better from Spasmodic Dysphonia before doesn't mean I can't be the first."
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"I watch ESPN all day. If you come into my trailer, ESPN is on. That's the first thing I do when I leave the set."
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"It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible."
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"Freedom, the first-born of science."
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"The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition."
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"My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind"
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"Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence."
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"The first record I bought with my own money was Rio."
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"I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought."
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"The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead."
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"Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it."
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"First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the stories became almost secondary, but it was kind of a background music for my life."
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"Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed."
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"I've got a mission to help people improve and massively change their lives and create breakthroughs, so I'm always looking for them and I'm the first guinea pig."
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"I always get everyone prepared so there aren't so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we're shooting that day. It's time-consuming but it reduces the chances of 'misunderstandings' on set."
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"The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur."
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"For the first time in a while, I must be honest, I really genuinely look forward to coming to work every day."
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