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• When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.

  Lawrence Wright

  Nashville, Rights, Race

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• A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'

  Howard Rheingold

  Games, Firsts, Kind

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• My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Ghetto, School, College

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after Norse mythology. She was also the first person to encourage me to submit stories for publication. The idea of writing a fantasy based on myths never left me, and many years later, this would lead me to write Percy Jackson.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Writing, Years

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• Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

  Manuel Puig

  Objectivity, Narrators, Cameras

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• Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison.

  J. K. Rowling

  Would Be, Poison, Firsts

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• Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

  Brent Runyon

  Book, Writing, Work Out

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• When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.

  Scott Adams

  People, Boss, Stories

  "Scott Adams Keeps the Home Office Humming". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. September 7, 1997.

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• I claimed to be the first person to adjust a vertebra by hand, using the spinous and transverse processes and levers. I developed the art known as adjusting, and formulated the science of chiropractic, and developed its philosophy.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Art, Philosophy, Hands

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• The basic principle, and the principles of chiropractic which have been developed from it are not new. They are as old as the vertebrae... I am not the first person to replace subluxated vertebra, for this art has been practiced for thousands of years.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Art, Years, Principles

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• My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She'd swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Character, Grandmother

  Interview with John Currin, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 30, 2010.

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• I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Together, Groups, Albums

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• If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off than we are right now, you know? But you've got to be the first one to do it. So I figured that Led Zeppelin or the Stones were going to do it unless we just got on to it. So I got cracking with the guys from Apple.

  Dhani Harrison

  Iphone, Apples, Design

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. March 16, 2008.

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• If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Believe, Verbs, Firsts

  Philosophical Investigations (1953) pt. 2, sec. 10

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• Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.

  Gary Kemp

  Lying, Reading, May

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• I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.

  Tom Morello

  Illinois, Color, Borders

  "Tom Morello on solo album, politics and racism". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2011.

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• My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

  Dean Norris

  Dad, College, Parent

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

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• I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

  Tamora Pierce

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what shape it is. I'm not the first person to ask that question, or to see how absurd it is to think there's a real answer. Maybe life's a circle.

  Questlove

  Real, Moving, Thinking

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• I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well.

  Nik Wallenda

  Years, Three, World

  "Niagara Falls tightrope walk: Nik Wallenda succeeds". www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

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• In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Positive, Basketball, Sports

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• How funny your name would be if you could follow it back to where the first person thought of saying it, naming himself that, or maybe some other persons thought of it and named that person. It would be like following a river to its source, which would be impossible. Rivers have no source.

  John Ashbery

  Names, Rivers, Would Be

  John Ashbery (2007). “Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems”, Ecco

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• If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.

  Craig Johnson

  Running, Moving, School

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• First person who says that to my face, I'll punch you!

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Media, Nba, Faces

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• That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Thinking, Years, Black

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Take Root Media

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