First Person Quotes - Page 7

• The first person I ever really got starstruck over was Nicole Kidman, because I looked up to her. When I was younger, I wouldn't get parts because of how tall I was. I had the body of a 15-year-old but the face of a 12-year-old. I always looked at Nicole Kidman and thought, "Oh well, she works."

  Liana Liberato

  Years, Body, Faces

  Interview with Rachel Small, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Challenges, Trying, Sound

  "Red Bull Stratos: Felix Baumgartner interview". Red Bull Interview, www.redbull.com. September 27, 2012.

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• You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.

  Alan Brien

  Home, Winning, Sight

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• Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Thinking, Sorrow

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1996). “Selected letters, 1940-1956”, Penguin Paperbacks

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• If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.

  Mother Teresa

  Firsts, Calcutta, Persons

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• Even when people didn't think I was the real champion, I got called out anyway. So now when you get a good win the first person people think of is me. I guess they thought it would be easy, but nothing comes easy.

  Danny Garcia

  Real, Winning, Thinking

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• Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"

  Jim Gaffigan

  Smell, Want, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from Aug 01, 2015

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• If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you'll notice they almost never said 'I,' and didn't speak in the first person. From Aristotle to Heidegger, they try to consider their own lives as something marginal or accidental. What was essential was their teaching and their thinking. Biography is something empirical and outside, and is considered an accident that isn't necessarily or essentially linked to the philosophical activity or system.

  Jacques Derrida

  Teaching, Philosophical, Thinking

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• It's interesting most people don't really know what a producer does and really the producer is the very first person on-site and the very last one to leave.

  Carl Mazzocone

  People, Interesting, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable. I remember at the very beginning actually, the first person I had to convince was myself really because there's a self-censorship. When everybody says 'we don't do silent movies anymore,' you agree with everybody, and you say 'yeah, you're right.' It was a fantasy.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Thinking, Self, People

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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• Just because I write in the first person doesn't mean that all my songs are autobiographical.

  Thalia Zedek

  Song, Writing, Mean

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I also found it funny to think about blackness as the second person. That was just sort of funny. Not the first person, but the second person, the other person.

  Claudia Rankine

  Thinking, Firsts, Found

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged.

  Kate Zambreno

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives. A lot of wonderful photographs were made available to me from that period - 1950-1956 - and those were given to me by a Korean newspaper in Seoul. Ruined villages, refugees streaming through a river valley, GI's and orphans and orphanages, those tiny details that you can only see in a picture.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Reading, Rivers, Village

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.

  Alice McDermott

  Differences, Worry, Firsts

  "Alice McDermott invokes a voice little heard in life or literature for 'Someone'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 8, 2013.

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• The point is that you free the ego. The ego is only a pronoun. It's a Greek first person pronoun, ergo. When you're in Greece you say, Ergo wants to take a bus, and you don't mean your ego wants to take a bus, like some big entity, you only mean I want to take a bus.

  Robert Thurman

  Mean, Ego, Greek

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Gentlemanly, principled, helpful behaviour by older men vis-a-vis young women goes unnoticed, but it deserves real moral credit, and we could use more first-person testimony from the beneficiaries and practitioners about that too.

  Catherine Wilson

  Real, Men, Behaviour

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I had an unorthodox high-school experience; I shifted around to different schools. When I got to college and met Larry Sacharow, who ran the theatre department [at Fordham University in NYC], he was the first person to say ‘I believe in you.’ At that point, I just needed someone to say ‘I see you, I get you, let’s go.’ It’s an amazing thing to borrow someone else’s confidence in you; it can change your life.

  Taylor Schilling

  Believe, School, College

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• When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful!

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Doors, Order, Community

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• I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!

  Jasper Fforde

  Hate, Character, People

  Jasper Fforde (2013). “The Thursday Next Collection 1-3: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots”, p.462, Hachette UK

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• Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

  J. D. Salinger

  Beautiful, Confused, Mean

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• ...quite simply, 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 you never love anyone quite that way again. I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage.

  Joan Didion

  New York, Spring, Twilight

  Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

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• You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.

  John Romero

  Design, Different, Firsts

  "The future of games is freedom". Interview with Alexander Gambotto-Burke, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2006.

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• One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends.

  Lily Rabe

  Mother, Sorry, Ex Boyfriend

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

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• Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.

  Tinie Tempah

  Inspiration, Hero, Urban Music

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