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A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.
I never know the right thing to say, especially during sex. After my first time, I said to the girl, 'That's it, I'm afraid'
Family comes first so I only have this specific window of time available to me and because of that I actually get more done.
Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.
To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.
Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep
Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.
I've always wondered if there was a Hezbollah version of minesweeper where you get points for blowing up on your first move.
The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.
My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.
The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.
You feel pretty gross when you are first pregnant. You don't feel cute, you feel disgusting. You're getting fat. It was hard.
The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.
Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.
Celebrating Christmas without Christ is like celebrating George Washington's birthday without mentioning the first president.
Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it.
Joe Torre, who switched to first base because he didn't want to go through life as Chicken Catcher Torre. Never got a dinner!
More than 80% of our revenue comes from people viewing ads on mobile devices. Inside Twitter, we talk and think mobile first.
It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.
I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.
At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there's all kinds of comedy, making us one big happy family.
You got to be brave and have courage, believe in yourself, because that is the first thing to success is believe in yourself.
Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.
A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.
I think the first thing that I saw on IMAX was 'The Avengers.' The scope and the size of it are pretty neat, I will say that.
Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.
Sometimes, when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step, you need to be the one to drive the change.
Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.
I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time.
I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.
Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.
You're not so bad. You'll get there. You should have seen Alec do flips at first. I think he kicked himself in the head once.
I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.
I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.
When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.
Everyone has an idea, but it’s taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.
First ask why, and decide whether something is worth doing. Only after that should you set about doing it as well as you can.
I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent and treated as a human being for the first time in all of her life.
The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.
In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones.