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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.”

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Book:Selected letters, 1940-1956

Source: Selected letters, 1940-1956

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

Ifs Firsts Persons First Person Calcutta

Author:Mother Teresa

“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.”

People Thinking Firsts Persons Real Would Be Winning Easy Champion First Person Real Champions

Author:Danny Garcia

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

Want Firsts Persons Walks Smell Horrible Harbors First Person

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“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.”

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Author:Jacques Derrida

“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.”

People Knows Firsts Persons Doe Lasts Interesting Producers Site First Person

Author:Carl Mazzocone

“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.”

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Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“I want to tell you about a woman I have been married to for ten years, my wife, Ann, who speaking truthfully, saved me from myself. Who saved me from destroying myself because of my background. Who saved me from wasting my life, drinking my life away, never fulfilling my dreams because of what I had come from, and truly believing and loving - truly the first person to ever truthfully, unconditionally love me.”

Want Years Firsts Believe Persons Has Beens Dream Wife Ten Married Drinking My Wife Saved Backgrounds Destroying Fulfilling First Person Love Unconditionally

Book:Why You Crying?: My Long, Hard Look at Life, Love, and Laughter

Source: Why You Crying?: My Long, Hard Look at Life, Love, and Laughter

“I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic.”

Writing Firsts Persons I Can Moving Dialogue Poetic First Person Utilitarian

Author:George Lucas

“I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.”

Thinking Should Firsts Persons Complexes Trusted Shallow Predictable First Person Narrators

Author:Rick Moody

“Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to ever sarcastically say hello. Hellooo, I invented the telephone!”

Firsts Persons Bells Telephones Hello First Person Graham Bell

Author:Andy Kindler

“Although no one said so, intuitively I knew they were my celestial welcoming committee. It was as if they had all gathered just outside heaven's gate, waiting for me. The first person I recognized was Joe Kulbeth, my grandfather. He looked exactly as I remembered him, with his shock of white hair. ...as I stared into his face, an ecstatic bliss overwhelmed me. ... I couldn't get past the joy of our reunion. How either of us reached heaven seemed irrelevant.”

Source: 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life

“I'm more of a fan of combat games than first-person shooters.”

Firsts Persons Games Fans Combat First Person Shooter

Author:Lights

“I'm looking at the head of the household, and the house hasn't been run properly for a long time, ... Clinton was the first person ever to make a formal apology to black people for slavery, which was very warm and appreciated. But African-Americans haven't healed at all . The wound is still very open. And seeing the differences in how people live, it just puts salt in it- constantly . Seeing the way we're treated within these United States ... it burns you even more every day.”

“I want to be the person that is the first person there and the last person to leave. That's who I want to be, because I think the road to success is through commitment, and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard. And it is going to get hard and you're going to want to quit sometimes, but it'll be colored by who you are, and more by who you want to be.”

Thinking Want Firsts Persons Sometimes Hard Lasts Commitment Who You Are Quitting Road To Success First Person

Author:Will Smith

“I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.”

Firsts Persons America Political Views New York Happenings Point Of View Latin First Person Latin America Latin American

Author:Ruben Blades

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

Writing Firsts Mean Persons Song First Person

Author:Thalia Zedek

“From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.”

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Author:Joseph Boyden

“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.”

Thinking Firsts Persons Found First Person Blackness

Author:Claudia Rankine

“The truce is that. You forgive all of these moments because you're constantly waiting for the moment when you will be seen. As an equal. As just another person. As another first person. There's a letting go that comes with it.”

Firsts Persons Moments Waiting Letting Go Equal Forgiving First Person Truce

Author:Claudia Rankine

“I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.”

Men Writing Firsts Persons Ideas Goes On No Idea First Person

Author:Janet Evanovich

“It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader.”

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Author:Akhil Sharma

“You witness the artists acting as witnesses, but they provide a point of view that's less monolithic. It's less official in a certain way. Many artists are speaking in the first person singular, as a reaction to dubbed-over media commentary. The thought is: "Enough with how we're represented by the media. Let me tell the story."”

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Author:Massimiliano Gioni

“Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt a bit like keeping journals when I was younger, but connecting to an instant readership without having to wait for publication made it also immediately satisfying.”

“Another benefit is that the more I blog, the more I maintain and develop a first-person voice, which translates into a much greater ease with writing personal essays.”

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Author:Kate Christensen

“I had to detach myself from myself, if that makes any sense, to conjure an authentic first-person voice. In that sense, it was similar to writing a first-person novel. But I was writing about real people, not fictional ones - myself, my family, my friends and boyfriends and ex-husband, and that was extremely tricky.”

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Author:Kate Christensen

“As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response - the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.”

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Author:Norman Lock

“A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end.”

Firsts Persons Ends Character Helping Stories Voice Progress Narrative Incidents First Person Uniformity Unstoppable Cohesiveness

Author:Norman Lock

“To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths.”

People Firsts Persons Hands Young Speak Mouths Architecture First Person Microphones Utterance Wise People

Author:Fred D'Aguiar

“Any story has a beginning, middle, and end, of course, but the question is, where do you start it exactly? It's about a guy who is murdered in a fistfight, but how does it evolve and what does it mean? That's what I discovered scene by scene, and this innovation of coming in as a first-person narrator was a complete surprise to me. It just happened.”

Firsts Mean Persons Doe Ends Stories Guy Courses Happened Middle Scene Innovation Surprise Evolve First Person Narrators Beginning Middle And End

Author:T.C. Boyle

“But lots of people do parody now. The whole mash-up thing that's so prevalent now was starting in the 80's when I was starting to think about this stuff. I certainly wasn't the first person to do it but now... comics mash-ups, all kinds of mash-ups are everywhere.”

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Author:Robert Sikoryak

“If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You'd like to avoid it just being other people's memories and interpretations.”

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Author:Brian Lindstrom

“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.”

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Author:Kate Zambreno

“I have a policy that I don't actually watch the work that I do. There are all kinds of reasons to do that, but one really interesting side effect that has come about from that is that I have no imagery of the show that isn't from first-person.”

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Author:Deborah Ann Woll

“I've always been a fan of comedy, and I understood from a young age that what makes most comedy work is the immediacy of first person experience. I'd spent a lot of time from 1995-1998 focusing almost exclusively on poetry, and it's an incredibly difficult form in which to achieve a sustained comic tone unless you're Alexander Pope.”

Firsts Persons Age Form Young Difficult Comedy Fans Achieve Understood Comic Tone Pope Young Age First Person Immediacy

Author:Kevin Keck

“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.”

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

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Author:Alice McDermott

“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.”

Want Firsts Mean Persons Bigs Ego Greek Bus Entity Greece First Person Pronouns

Author:Robert Thurman

“It was so enticing from the beginning to be this woman who was entrenched in The Flash's world. She's not there to just tell him what a great job he's doing, she's also there to push him further and help him to be the best that he can be. She's often the first person to be a little bit skeptical of him, which is kind of nice. She really challenges him.”

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Author:Danielle Panabaker

“I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to simply all together pretend that we knew what "first-person perspective" (or "quale" or "consciousness") means, so that we can keep our traditional debates running on forever.”

“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.”

“Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.”

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Author:Thomas Metzinger

“For a human being, to possess a consciously experienced first-person perspective means to have acquired a very specific functional profile and distinctive level of representational content in one's currently active phenomenal self-model: It has, episodically, become a dynamic inner model of a knowing self.”

Firsts Humans Mean Persons Self Human Beings Levels Knowing Perspective Models Active First Person Profile Phenomenal Distinctive

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“There has certainly been a great deal of work addressing the relationship between naturalism and the first-person perspective. Quite a number of philosophers have suggested that there are features of the first-person perspective that naturalism just cannot accommodate, whether it be qualitative character, or consciousness, or simply the ability we have to think of ourselves in a distinctively first-person manner.”

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Author:Hilary Kornblith

“In my view, philosophers have shown a great deal more respect for the first-person point of view than it deserves. There's a lot of empirical work on the various psychological mechanisms by way of which the first-person point of view is produced, and, when we understand this, I believe, we can stop romanticising and mythologising the first-person perspective.”

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Author:Hilary Kornblith

“By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first time.”

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Author:Hilary Kornblith

“If you talk about sin, you don't have to use the first person singular, but speak out of that part of yourself which knows what it means to become estranged from people you love. Speak in your own voice about things that you in your own life have in one way or another experienced.”

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Author:Frederick Buechner

“But really, for me, I tried to find first-person accounts. I tried to read stories from men and women who had survived slavery because it's different when you hear it from their mouths instead of reading it from a history book.”

Men Firsts Persons Book Different Stories Reading Mouths Men And Women Accounts Slavery Survived First Person History Books

Author:Jurnee Smollett

“The first person I click on can't be the right choice.”

Firsts Persons Choices First Person Clicks Right Choices

Author:Amy B. Harris

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