First Person Quotes - Page 9

• Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.

  Mary Harron

  Fashion, Dressing Up, Pages

  Source: susiebright.blogs.com

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• The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length of time it takes to write a book, the publisher and the readers can and will come later.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.

  Karen Armstrong

  Years, Golden, Firsts

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• The trouble with being an activist is you end up like Eve and you get kicked out of the Garden of Eden. You know, Eve was the first person who thought for herself. And she still gets a bad rap. I named my daughter after her.

  Susan Sarandon

  Daughter, Wisdom, Rap

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• Well, it looks like John Boehner will be the new Speaker of the House. He is the son of a bartender, one of 12 children. He grew up in a two room home with just one bathroom, worked his way through school, became the first person in his family to graduate from college. And, sadly, fell in with the wrong crowd and wound up in Congress.

  Jay Leno

  Children, Home, School

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• In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of "True Detective" that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Summer, Thinking, Two

  "'True Detective' creator on his gripping new HBO series". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 7, 2014.

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• I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Trying, Firsts

  Source: leitesculinaria.com

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• The first person I ever cared deeply and sincerely about was - myself.

  Louella Parsons

  Firsts, Sincerely, Persons

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• I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences methodology that integrates science (third-person view) social transformation (second-person view) and the evolution of self (first-person view) into a coherent framework of consciousness-based action research

  Otto Scharmer

  Thinking, Self, Views

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• All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person. Something in me - probably a dislike of cheap exhibitionism- stops me from approaching a project too autobiographically.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Character, Talking, Exhibitionism

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• Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.

  Brian Greene

  Book, Writing, Different

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• There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

  Drake

  Rap, People, Firsts

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• I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this - so why can't I do it?

  Gisele Bundchen

  Giving, Done, Firsts

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• I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.

  Tom Bodett

  Voice, Guy, Firsts

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• A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspiring, Success, Failure

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• Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, People, Different

  "Emotionally weird? Moi?". Interview with Kim Bunce, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2000.

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• I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

  Wally Lamb

  Writing, Character, Firsts

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• People have a right to protest; they have a right to make their opinion. They can be very upset about what they consider to be a murder of a person in custody, but you cannot destroy property. First person does it goes to jail.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Jail, People, Upset

  "Baltimore remains calm after first night of mandatory curfew". "The Five" with Dana Perino, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Juan Williams, Eric Bolling, Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I believe that if we would carefully apply the distinction between transparency and opacity to the different layers of the human self-model, looking at self-consciousness in a much more careful and fine-grained manner, then we might also arrive at a new answer to your original question: What a "first-person perspective" really is.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Believe, Self, Perspective

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.

  Elliott Yamin

  Growing Up, Inspire, Singing

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

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• First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

  James McBride

  Narrative, Firsts, Tools

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• First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to share her world quite intimately. So it suits a story focused on one character's personal journey. However, first person shuts out insights into other characters.

  Juliet Marillier

  Character, Journey, Stories

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• The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Soul, Firsts

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• People go through life and make personal decisions and sometimes they don't work out. I won't be the first person to be divorced.

  Tiki Barber

  People, Work Out, Decision

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• If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.

  Ben Affleck

  Would Be, Rooms, Firsts

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