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“What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'”

Writing Firsts Opportunity Given Sun Fantastic Sunday Honour Columns

“The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New York. I went to Clinique and bought the three-step acne programme and felt so grown-up.”

Firsts Three Given Felt Steps New York First Time Shops Staying Programmes Godmother Acne

Author:Trinny Woodall

“Dad has, and had, a deservedly glowing reputation. However, this belief in 'reputation first' seems to have given rise to his fears of what might be rumored after his death.”

Firsts Seems Might Belief Given Dad Reputation Glowing

Book:Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant

Source: Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant

“The first thing you do is sit down with your wife and say something like this, Honey, I've made a terrible mistake. I've given you my role. I gave up leading this family. ... I'm not suggesting that you ask for your role back, I'm urging you to take it back ... Be sensitive. Listen. Treat the lady gently and lovingly. But lead!”

Firsts Made Asks Given Mistake Roles Wife Terrible Treats Scary Sensitive Honey Gave Up Suggesting

Author:Tony Evans

“I think sometimes you get given a good pile of goodwill, and it's whether you use it up in the first six months or spread it out over a career.”

Thinking Firsts Sometimes Use Given Careers Months Six Spread Six Months Goodwill

Author:Ricky Gervais

“Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why the writer hasn't written before, followed by one paragraph of small talk, with the remainder devoted to reasons why it is imperative that the letter be brought to a close.”

Firsts Reason Today Given Half Written Letters Statements Reason Why Devoted Imperatives Paragraph Correspondence Small Talk

Book:Benchley beside himself

Source: Benchley beside himself

“There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.”

“Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.”

Firsts Winning Given Loses Audience Battle Seconds Presentation Public Speaking Win Or Lose

Book:Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

Source: Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

“I'm still learning. It's all a learning curve. Every time you sit down, with any given episode of any given show, it is a learning curve. You're learning something new about how to tell a story. But then, I've felt that way about everything I've ever done - television, features or whatever. Directing or writing, it always feels like the first day of school to me.”

Way Feels Writing Firsts Stills Done Stories Shows School Given Felt Television Features Something New Episodes Curves Learning Curve First Day Of School Learning Something New

Author:Frank Darabont

“If we want to read and to pray the prayers of the Bible and especially the Psalms, therefore, we must not ask first what they have to do with us, but what they have to do with Jesus Christ...It does not depend, therefore, on whether the Psalms express adequately that which we feel at a given moment in our heart. If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray.”

Ifs Want Feels Firsts Heart Doe Important Moments Asks Jesus Given Christ Prayer Depends Praying Jesus Christ Contrary Want U Psalms

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.”

Firsts Given Principles Weakness Weak Assistance Fellowship Brotherly Brotherly Love

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nearly everyone who is unemployed votes "Democrat." Nearly every immigrant, at least in the first generation, votes "Democrat." Nearly every non-white American votes "Democrat." The GOP know that so intellectually and financially bankrupt an administration should never have been re-elected - indeed, given the scale of electoral fraud practiced by the "Democrats," he may not actually have been re-elected (always supposing that he had the constitutional right to hold the office of president in the first place).”

“we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.”

Knows Firsts Whole Truth Speak Given Taste Hunger

Author:Laura Riding

“Most people aren't sure what's going to happen on a first date. Given that ambiguity, every woman must be totally aware at every moment that she is responsible for every choice she makes... protect yourselves. See trouble coming.”

People Firsts Moments Happens Choices Given Trouble Protect Responsible Ambiguity First Date

Author:Camille Paglia

“Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.”

People Thinking Firsts Ideas Together Given Nations Leader Millions Television First Time Discovering Pakistan Forums

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“The President and first lady did hold a private party at the White House over the weekend, but given the private nature of that event, I don't have a lot of details to discuss from here.”

Firsts House Given President Nature White Party Events Details White House Weekend First Lady Private Parts

Author:Josh Earnest

“It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.”

Firsts Art Film Actors Given Social Comfortable Cinema Significance Preference Credibility

Author:Om Puri

“I think the work in front of us is the first work task given our forbearers, which is to care for the garden. Now because it's the first thing commanded, maybe it's the first thing forgotten. But it is the first admonition and it is absolutely unequivocal. It is part of right livelihood.”

Thinking Firsts Care Given Fronts Garden Tasks Environmental Forgotten Stewardship Livelihood Admonition Unequivocal

Author:Wes Jackson

“Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.”

Firsts Mean Littles Two Purpose Speak Given Heaven Ears Tongue Thee Two Things Propose

Author:Hafez

“When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.”

Firsts Done Given Causes Expectations Exciting Something New

Author:Anna Friel

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