"The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet)."
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"Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place."
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"I always travel first class on a train. It's the only way to avoid one's creditors."
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"Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map."
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"If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across."
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"I thought when I... made my first big mistakes in public that that was really going to be the end of me. My parents cried. My friends were desperate."
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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
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"Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me."
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"I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet."
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"I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow."
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"The sight of Imran [Khan] tearing fearsomely down the hill and the baying of the crowd made me realise for the first time that adrenalin was sometimes brown"
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"I'm off everything apart from the fags and the coffee. I don't know if it's worked. It works up until you take your first drink."
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"I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last."
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"In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first."
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"A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place."
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"Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back."
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"Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively."
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"Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture."
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"In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe."
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"Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?"
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