First Person Quotes - Page 10

• As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them.

  Lana Del Rey

  Lying, Firsts, Slander

  "Paradise Lost: an Interview With Lana Del Rey". www.electronicbeats.net. June 19, 2013.

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• First person to appreciate the good points of others is always special in life as he or she manifests his or her leadership through initiatives.

  Anuj

  Appreciate, Special, Firsts

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• If you want to be a leader, the first person you have to lead is yourself.

  Mike Scioscia

  Leader, Want, Firsts

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• I welcome anyone that wants to come into the WWE and try it, because, I was the type of person that was not welcome with open arms. People didn't want me to come in because I was from a Reality background. But I'm the first person that says, bring anybody in.

  The Miz

  Reality, Wwe, People

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• Napoleon was one of the most complex personalities in history.He was ruthless, small in stature, a bully, vulnerable, unfaithful and I think he was the first person to shoot prisoners of war so that he had food for his own army. He was absolutely single-minded but he also obviously had charm. How else could a man like him have come back as he did and have the nation rise to a man!

  David Suchet

  War, Army, Men

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

  Cameron Crowe

  Song, Firsts, Kind

  "EXCLUSIVE: Cameron Crowe Opens Up About His Life, Career, and Elizabethtown". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. October 12, 2005.

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• It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

  Christopher Mintz-Plasse

  Directors, Roles, Scripts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The first person who throws the rock is a lot more radical than a hundredth person.By the time the riot has attracted a hundred people, you don't have to be nearly as much of a daredevil or a hothead or committed or any of those things to want to engage in a riot.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Rocks, People, Want

  "How Riots May Help Us Understand School Shooters". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. October 13, 2015.

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• Elvis was the first person in music that I really identified with.

  Cher

  Firsts, Persons

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• I got a sense of the amazingness of ordinary life, and I became aware of the marvel that we're around to begin with. I visited a lot of extreme communities, like the Amish, Hasidic Jews, and serpent-handlers. And I was proud, because I think I'm the first person to ever out-Bible-talk a Jehovah's Witness. After four hours, he said, "Okay, I have to go."

  A. J. Jacobs

  Thinking, Community, Proud

  Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.

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• Early on, I settled on the first-person strategy as a way to deal with exposition and world-description issues. As long as the book is, it could have been far longer had I gone with an omniscient third-person narrator, or multiple point-of-view characters, since either of those would have enabled me to impart much more detailed information about the history and geography of the world.

  Neal Stephenson

  Book, Character, Issues

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Coming in second place just means you were the first person to lose.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Mean, Firsts, Persons

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• I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.

  Terry McMillan

  Mother, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I wanted to do something different. Therefore, the first person I thought would have been too exclusionary. It would have said me, me, me, me, me. I, I, I, I, I. As if I were pushing away my experiences from the experiences of others. Because basically what I was trying to do was show our commonality. I mean to say, in the very ordinariness of what I recount I think perhaps the reader will find resonances with his or her own life.

  Paul Auster

  Mean, Thinking, Trying

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth both have first-person voices, and I ended up investigating those voices and investing so much in them that I think many people took them more seriously than they ought to have.

  Daniel Handler

  Thinking, Eight, Voice

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Letters, Firsts, Vulgar

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.162, Open Road Media

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• I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

  Sarah Dessen

  Giving, Firsts, Insight

  "Author Interview: Sarah Dessen". Interview with Aine Fey, ainesrealm.blogspot.com. June 6, 2013.

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• I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short.

  Stephen King

  Fall, Book, Ideas

  Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

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• Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to college everyone puts so much hope into you.

  Lee Daniels

  College, Black, Firsts

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• A lot of times people come up to me saying 'oh my god you can see,' and they think they're the first person to think of that joke, but they're probably the 10,000th one to say that joke.

  Nat Wolff

  Thinking, People, Firsts

  "Nat Wolff is Not a Goddamn Intern". Interview with Lauren Larson, www.gq.com. September 23, 2015.

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• Partly why I love to operate is that I love to watch an actor within a shot. When you watch a shot, and you know that everything's come together, I feel I'm the first person watching it. I always get pleasure out of that.

  Roger Deakins

  Together, Watches, Actors

  Interview with Jeff Bridges, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2015.

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• Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and more direct way - a first-order, first-person experience - rather than filtered through the mind of another.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Order, Games, Mind

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2012). “Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment—and Your Life”, p.30, Sounds True

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• We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Self Reliance, Firsts, Remember

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.8

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• One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.

  Rachel Kushner

  Knowing, Narrators, Firsts

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• But really, for me, I tried to find first-person accounts. I tried to read stories from men and women who had survived slavery because it's different when you hear it from their mouths instead of reading it from a history book.

  Jurnee Smollett

  Book, Reading, Men

  "Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016.

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