First Person Quotes - Page 11

• I'm not the first person to sing about God, Jesus, faith [or] any of that, and I won't be the last. And it won't be the last for me, either. If you don't like it, change the channel.

  Carrie Underwood

  Jesus, Lasts, Firsts

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• I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.

  Minnie Driver

  Swear To God, Firsts, Impossible

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• The first person you lead is you.

  John C. Maxwell

  Firsts, Persons

  John C. Maxwell (2002). “Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know”, p.19, Thomas Nelson

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• Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle and distance of the narrator, they exert different effects. The best are those in which the speaker never poses as an objective outsider. (...) Other stories are damaged by the urge to distance the narrator.

  Yiyun Li

  Football, Distance, Narrators

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• The first person I click on can't be the right choice.

  Amy B. Harris

  Choices, Firsts, Clicks

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never love anyone quite that way again.

  Joan Didion

  New York, Mean, Cities

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Dec 22, 2014

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• The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that.

  Marc Parent

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Sports

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• Houllier did what he had to do – I’m not the first person to be treated like a disposable commodity

  Robbie Fowler

  Firsts, Commodity, Treated

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• I've never been able to control a first-person shooter, but as soon as I used the Revolution controller, I found it very easy to control the game. So, I think that's a genre that's particularly well suited for the controller.

  Satoru Iwata

  Thinking, Games, Able

  "Revolution Demo Tour Continues" by Mark Bozon, www.ign.com. December 15, 2005.

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• The first person who really showed me the ugly spirit was Brion Gysin. "The ugly spirit shot Joan because . . ." and I never found out why. This Brion wrote out on a piece of paper in a sort of trance state.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Pieces, Paper, Ugly

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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• USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hope, Fashion, Book

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.229, 谷月社

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• I was Patient Zero. The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Zero, Firsts, Reputation

  "Monica Lewinsky on the Aftermath of the Bill Clinton Sex Scandal and Being 'Patient Zero' of Cyberbullying: 'Who the Hell Knows How I Survived'" by Emily Mahaney, www.glamour.com. October 21, 2014.

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• If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Way To Live, World, Firsts

  "The Master". www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• I'm more of a fan of combat games than first-person shooters.

  Lights

  Games, Fans, Firsts

  Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. November 11, 2009.

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• In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Differences, Self Reliance

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.5, Henry David Thoreau

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• I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to simply all together pretend that we knew what "first-person perspective" (or "quale" or "consciousness") means, so that we can keep our traditional debates running on forever.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Running, Philosophical, Mean

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt a bit like keeping journals when I was younger, but connecting to an instant readership without having to wait for publication made it also immediately satisfying.

  Kate Christensen

  Voice, Waiting, Anxiety

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You witness the artists acting as witnesses, but they provide a point of view that's less monolithic. It's less official in a certain way. Many artists are speaking in the first person singular, as a reaction to dubbed-over media commentary. The thought is: "Enough with how we're represented by the media. Let me tell the story."

  Massimiliano Gioni

  Artist, Views, Media

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader.

  Akhil Sharma

  Children, Able, Firsts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.

  Janet Evanovich

  Writing, Men, Ideas

  Interview with Brian Sherwin, www.bookbrowse.com. October 31, 2010.

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• The truce is that. You forgive all of these moments because you're constantly waiting for the moment when you will be seen. As an equal. As just another person. As another first person. There's a letting go that comes with it.

  Claudia Rankine

  Letting Go, Waiting, Forgiving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was the first person to go to university from my family.

  Ellie Goulding

  Firsts, My Family, University

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.

  Joseph Boyden

  Challenges, Stories, Crafts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

  Eric Bogosian

  Thinking, Cities, People

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• I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.

  Ruben Blades

  New York, Latin, Views

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