First Person Quotes - Page 12

• Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

  Veerappa Moily

  Example, Fuel, Firsts

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• I'm looking at the head of the household, and the house hasn't been run properly for a long time, ... Clinton was the first person ever to make a formal apology to black people for slavery, which was very warm and appreciated. But African-Americans haven't healed at all . The wound is still very open. And seeing the differences in how people live, it just puts salt in it- constantly . Seeing the way we're treated within these United States ... it burns you even more every day.

  Jill Scott

  Running, Apology, Differences

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• Although no one said so, intuitively I knew they were my celestial welcoming committee. It was as if they had all gathered just outside heaven's gate, waiting for me. The first person I recognized was Joe Kulbeth, my grandfather. He looked exactly as I remembered him, with his shock of white hair. ...as I stared into his face, an ecstatic bliss overwhelmed me. ... I couldn't get past the joy of our reunion. How either of us reached heaven seemed irrelevant.

  Don Piper

  Past, Hair, White

  Don Piper, Cecil Murphey (2015). “90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life”, p.27, Baker Books

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• I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.

  Eben Alexander

  Glimpse, Body, Firsts

  "Proof Of Heaven: A Doctor’s Experience With The Afterlife". www.newsweek.com. October 8, 2012.

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• I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic.

  George Lucas

  Moving, Writing, Firsts

  "Star Wars archive: George Lucas 1999 interview". Interview with Ian Freer, www.empireonline.com. September 1999.

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• I want to tell you about a woman I have been married to for ten years, my wife, Ann, who speaking truthfully, saved me from myself. Who saved me from destroying myself because of my background. Who saved me from wasting my life, drinking my life away, never fulfilling my dreams because of what I had come from, and truly believing and loving - truly the first person to ever truthfully, unconditionally love me.

  George Lopez

  Dream, Drinking, Believe

  George Lopez (2004). “Why You Crying?: My Long, Hard Look at Life, Love, and Laughter”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm the one who's dating the craft-service guy instead of the producer. Plus, if a producer is going to date a hot young thing, I'm probably not the first person on their list - the weird, quirky, funny girl.

  Whitney Cummings

  Girl, Dating, Guy

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• Another benefit is that the more I blog, the more I maintain and develop a first-person voice, which translates into a much greater ease with writing personal essays.

  Kate Christensen

  Writing, Voice, Ease

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I had to detach myself from myself, if that makes any sense, to conjure an authentic first-person voice. In that sense, it was similar to writing a first-person novel. But I was writing about real people, not fictional ones - myself, my family, my friends and boyfriends and ex-husband, and that was extremely tricky.

  Kate Christensen

  Husband, Real, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You'd like to avoid it just being other people's memories and interpretations.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Memories, People, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always been a fan of comedy, and I understood from a young age that what makes most comedy work is the immediacy of first person experience. I'd spent a lot of time from 1995-1998 focusing almost exclusively on poetry, and it's an incredibly difficult form in which to achieve a sustained comic tone unless you're Alexander Pope.

  Kevin Keck

  Age, Fans, Firsts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have a policy that I don't actually watch the work that I do. There are all kinds of reasons to do that, but one really interesting side effect that has come about from that is that I have no imagery of the show that isn't from first-person.

  Deborah Ann Woll

  Interesting, Watches, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

  Douglas Trumbull

  Experience, Firsts, Film

  "Trumbull's vision". Interview with Jeff Greenwald, www.wired.com. January 1, 1997.

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• If I have to change my religious beliefs, I would not marry the person that I love because the first person that I love is God, who created me. And I have my faith and my principles and this is what makes me who I am. And if that person loves me, he should love my God too.

  Shamcey Supsup

  Religious, Love Is, Who I Am

  "Miss Universe 2011: Did 'Love my God' Answer Cost Shamcey Supsup the Crown?" by Ravelle Mohammed, www.christianpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• But lots of people do parody now. The whole mash-up thing that's so prevalent now was starting in the 80's when I was starting to think about this stuff. I certainly wasn't the first person to do it but now... comics mash-ups, all kinds of mash-ups are everywhere.

  Robert Sikoryak

  Thinking, Mash Up, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Any story has a beginning, middle, and end, of course, but the question is, where do you start it exactly? It's about a guy who is murdered in a fistfight, but how does it evolve and what does it mean? That's what I discovered scene by scene, and this innovation of coming in as a first-person narrator was a complete surprise to me. It just happened.

  T.C. Boyle

  Mean, Guy, Innovation

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Hands, People, Utterance

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end.

  Norman Lock

  Character, Voice, Progress

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm a little bit of a geek - I have to be the first person to get new things when they come out. I always want to buy and try new gadgets.

  Tom Felton

  Trying, Gadgets, Want

  "Tom Felton: I'm a little bit of a geek". Interview With Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

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• As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response - the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.

  Norman Lock

  Character, Viewpoints, Matter

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'

  Maya Rudolph

  Disappointment, Years, Want

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• Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers of all ages.

  Katharine Weber

  Children, Age, Narrative

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• Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Christian, Fun, Firsts

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• The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, there are these tests that have been written by multiple people.

  Alejandro Zambra

  People, Firsts, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

  Stanley Crouch

  Jobs, People, Violence

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