First Person Quotes - Page 5

• I wasn't allowed to watch MTV before school, but somehow I managed to, when I was five or six and Fiona Apple's video for "Criminal" came on. She was so odd and dark, and I immediately felt some kind of connection with her. She was also the first person I admired for their looks.

  Sky Ferreira

  School, Dark, Mtv

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't like to rate myself; others can do that. I've spoken with a number of young people who weren't even born in 1969, when the first moon landing was made. They've witnessed the first person to fly at faster than speed of the sound without propulsion. These kids are happy to have had such a momentous event in their lifetime.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Kids, Moon, Numbers

  "Death-Defying Skydiver Felix Baumgartner 'It's Never Been about the Thrills'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 1, 2012.

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• My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.

  Hafez Nazeri

  Father, Years, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

  Phyllis A. Whitney

  Writing, Character, Order

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• Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on TV.

  Samantha Bond

  Memories, Special, Stories

  "Poirot and me" by Samantha Bond, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2013.

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• I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.

  Charles Palliser

  Thinking, Narrators, Firsts

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• Good old Pete. That's me. But I find it hard to think of myself in the first person when I'm writing about The Who. So many times he has willingly sat down to write about the good old Who. Isn't he too old to masturbate?

  Pete Townshend

  Writing, Thinking, Firsts

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• A writer is obviously at his most natural and relaxed when he writes in the first person. Writing is a personal transaction between two people, conducted on paper, and the transaction will go well to the extent that it retains its humanity.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Two, People

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• There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It’s not a tool to understand myself.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Self, World

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

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• If I'm doing some weird tick with my mouth, or not standing still or something, I'll be the first person to notice it, and then want to change that. I think it's important just to maintain trajectory, to not just use your same tricks over and over.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Thinking, Important, Use

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• I actually am always a music first person

  Duncan Sheik

  Firsts, Persons

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• A fashion icon to me is somebody who has, the first person who struck you and introduced you to the world of fashion, and that person is my mom.

  Nicole Richie

  Mom, Fashion, Icons

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their thoughts and experience eternity and access the higher planes of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Yoga, Buddhism

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• Lauren Kirshner creates a first-person narrator you never stop rooting for. . . . [Where We Have to Go] highlights Kirshner as a new novelist to watch. A very strong, original debut.

  Zoe Whittall

  Strong, Narrators, Novelists

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• With the adult ones, I feel I need to get as deep inside the psychology of a character as I can, and that needs to be first-person. In the children's books, I feel I need some distance. I don't want to be the nine-year-old at the center of the story. I need to have some type of narrative voice.

  John Boyne

  Children, Distance, Book

  "John Boyne hates celebrity children's books". Interview with Kelly Gallucci, www.usatoday.com. April 11, 2014.

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• If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.

  Zachary Levi

  Thinking, Firsts, Singers

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

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• The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.

  Mona Simpson

  Mother, Men, Ice Cream

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• Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

  Aminatta Forna

  Political, Historical, Stories

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• Jeremy Popkin's collection of first-person narratives of the Haitian Revolution is an extremely valuable work, accessible, sound and intelligent. I only wish such a book had been available fifteen years ago when I was in the early stages of researching my series of novels. Popkin has been deft and tactful in stitching together these excerpts, and as a result, he manages to tell a complete version of the Revolution almost entirely in the words of the people who experienced it-this book engaged me deeply.

  Madison Smartt Bell

  Book, Intelligent, Years

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• Ken Griffey changed the game, but he also represented pop culture and the youth - how he wore his hat backwards, how he swung the bat and walked off...he brought energy to the game, class to the game. He was kind of the first person I really watched. He was a big influence.

  Russell Wilson

  Games, Class, Energy

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• For me, personally, I'm more comfortable with what I would call third-person entertainment, meaning watching a character that's explicitly not me and experiencing something through a character's eyes, than what I would call first-person entertainment, which is a video game in which I am the character.

  John Landgraf

  Eye, Character, Games

  Source: collider.com

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• The first person I learned I could make happy with laughter was my mother, whom I idolize. It was a powerful thing to realize. I knew I had found my life's work.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Mother, Powerful, Laughter

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• In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.

  Roger Scruton

  Party, Views, Imagination

  Roger Scruton (2015). “Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation”, p.139, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Congratulations to Sachin Tendulkar for becoming the first person ever to score 50 test hundreds, absolute superstar

  Rohan Bopanna

  Congratulations, Tests, Firsts

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• The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Firsts, Realizing, Film

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