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• Professional marriage counselors agree that the most productive and mature way to deal with marital anger is to stomp dramatically from the room. You want to make your move before the opponent does, because the first person to stomp from the room receives valuable Argument Points that can be redeemed for exciting merchandise at the Marital Prize Redemption Center.

  Dave Barry

  Moving, Funny Marriage, Doe

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.208, Crown Archetype

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• Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced by the folk song, the storytelling tradition in folk music. And so for years I wrote mostly story songs. I still do that, but as I've gone on, it's gotten a little more personal. I used to write mostly in the third person. I write a little more in the first person now.

  Bruce Hornsby

  Song, Writing, Years

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• The first person you have to resurrect is yourself

  RZA

  Firsts, Persons

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.64, Penguin

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• Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the first person was who said this was okay. After spending all that money on a bachelorette weekend, a shower, and often a flight across the country, they expect you to go to Williams Sonoma or Pottery Barn and do research? Then they send you a thank-you note applauding you for such a thoughtful gift. They're the one who picked it out!

  Chelsea Handler

  Country, Weekend, Thoughtful

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• Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative.

  Meg Cabot

  Growing Up, Book, Romance

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• I was the first person that had been so kind to Iman Abdulmajid. As time went on, and she became successful, signed with an agency, when she had to make big decisions, she wouldn't always talk to an agent, she'd ask me. I'd give her good advice and she'd be on her way. When I had ideas to do things like the Black Girls Coalition, I would always talk to her, she always loved my ideas. She trusts me.

  Bethann Hardison

  Girl, Successful, Ideas

  Source: time.com

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• Much of my work has been done in first person.

  Jesse Ball

  Done, Firsts, Persons

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends' opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not.

  Jessica Simpson

  Book, Self, Noble

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• Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.

  Robert Smith

  Thinking, Singers, Might

  "Timeless tunesmith". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2003.

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• There are certain things in 'Twilight'... As much as I'm proud of that movie and I do like it, I feel like maybe I brought too much of myself to the character. I feel like I really know Bella now. But most readers feel like they know Bella because it's a first-person narrative.

  Kristen Stewart

  Twilight, Character, Proud

  Interview with Dennis Hopper, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2009.

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• If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across.

  Shania Twain

  Careers, Childhood, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

  Jack Welch

  Leadership, Real, Guy

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. June 11, 2011.

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• I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Artist, Rocks, Firsts

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• I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

  Robbie Williams

  Rocks, Lasts, Firsts

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• I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.

  St. Lucia

  Mother, Art, Firsts

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

  Jean Kerr

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.

  Penn Jillette

  Sports, Talking, Firsts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If a Republican came along and suggested free abortions for people on Medicaid, the first person to stand up would be Jesse Jackson and start shouting, "Racism!" And then Al Sharpton wouldn't be as far behind, and they would call it an attempt to eliminate people of color by the dastardly, rascally Republicans. But yet Hillary Clinton is proposing it and is being feted, praised to the heavens for such a compassionate plan. The Democrats are wiping out their own people. That's why they need open borders for replacements to be brought in ASAP.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Color, Racism, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The first time on stage is such a blur to me. I remember how it felt more than anything. I remember everything about the day before I went on stage - what I ate, the first person I met in the club, how I felt beforehand - but the actual being on stage is a total blur.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Remembers Everything, Clubs, Firsts

  Source: hollywoodchicago.com

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• Describing some kinds of feelings comes across as too excessive in the first person. If you put it in the third person, you're taking a little bit of a distance, and that way it becomes more apprehensible to a viewer. You're always riding this fine line of risking saying too much, do you know what I mean? When you feel you're in that area, if you shift the address a little bit it can alter it.

  Moyra Davey

  Distance, Mean, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when you begin to do your work, you're climbing into somebody else's skin.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Thinking, Climbing

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• The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

  Brian Eno

  Firsts, Intrusion, Occasional

  "Pushing Back the Limits of Speech and Music". Interview with Ben Sisario, www.nytimes.com. July 4, 2011.

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• When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.

  Daniel Goleman

  Yield, Data, Mind

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• On the way I thought about how millions of people drowned so that the first person could learn to swim. The amazing thing is that people still drown.

  Shahrnush Parsipur

  People, Swim, Way

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• Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.

  John Green

  Falling In Love, Teenager, Love You

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