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I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.
I was 11 when I first said I wanted to become an actress, and everyone looked at me as if I had said I wanted to go to the moon.
You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture as the poet put it, but it stays with you like a good acid trip.
I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.
That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.
Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'
That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.
Enoki mushrooms, a tasty variety commonly sold in grocery stores, were one of the first mushrooms studied for preventing cancer.
I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.
Find you a bridge and take a jump. Just make certain you do it right the first time, cause nothing's worse than a suicide chump.
Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint.
Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.
I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.
Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive." He smiled. "It helps you listen.
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.
Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.
First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.
I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.
It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.
The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.
Would [Betsy DeVos] be my first pick? No. Is she someone who has dedicated her life to education policy? Yes, actually, she has.
I wonder if anybody ever decided to commit suicide, then thought; but first I'm going to stop by that taco place I like so much.
The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.
It seems like there'd be no Donald Trump without the internet, first of all. He's a tweeter, which is basically just a bullhorn.
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.
You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.
Really dig into projects people have worked on and call references; that is another thing that first time founders like to skip.
I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.
The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.
At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.
I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.
Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my first breath. It is where I will always derive a sense of place and a sense of belonging
The Sopranos was the first show about the life of the writer. I never made any secret about the fact that it was about my mother.
It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion.
All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours.
My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.
Ros was dead. He had loved heroin more than it loved him. I was shocked beyond imagining; he was the first of my friends to fall.
You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life.
I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric
When you need a lifestyle change due to [health issues], a dietary change is usually the first thing you need to take control of.
The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.
If you have made three or four films, my feeling is, he is older than me because I am still making my first movie. That helps me.
Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.
The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.
At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.