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“So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find with my absurdist plays that I was actually writing about my family, but so disguised I didn't realize it myself.”

Writing Firsts Play Realizing My Family About Family

Author:Christopher Durang

“I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.”

Firsts Hands Eye Earth Death Three Born Numbers Generations Members My Family Fingers Males Legs Reasonable Expecting Toes Three Generations

Author:Neil Kinnock

“Everyone always says, Does it bother you that Italians are always portrayed as Mafia characters? No, it doesn't bother me. First of all, not everybody in my family is in the Mafia. I have one uncle who's clean.”

Firsts Doe Character My Family Clean Bother Uncles Mafia

Author:Dom Irrera

“My uncle was the first one in my family to get a telephone. It was like going to the moon. He came running over to tell us, and we were so proud. A telephone! We didn't have to go to the candy store to phone any more. We went around telling everyone. But we didn't hear from my uncle for three days, so my father got worried. He said, Let's go over there. We got there, and my uncle was very depressed. I asked, What's the matter? He said, I got a telephone and nobody called me. He didn't give his number out - he didn't know that you had to!”

Knows Giving Firsts Said Matter Running Three Father Numbers Proud Moon My Family Phones Stores Worried Uncles Telephones Candy Candy Stores Very Depressed

Author:Pat Cooper

“My family comes first before anything, they are everything to me.”

Firsts My Family Family Comes First

Author:Nick Carter

“I'll work to maintain my work ethic out on the road, playing my shows, giving 110%, keeping God first, my family second, and treating my fans like royalty.”

Giving Firsts Shows Fans Ethics My Family Work Ethic Royalty God First

Author:Aaron Watson

“My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.”

People Thinking Firsts Children Dad My Family My Dad Call Me Conventions Initials

Author:Elvis Costello

“I love my family but my family - they're the type of people that never let you forget anything you ever did... I was in the first grade Christmas play - I'm playing Mary. Now, during the course of the play, I dropped the baby Jesus... They still talk about this. I go to my family reunion, and one of my cousins just had a baby. So I'm like, 'Oh, that's a cute little baby. Let me hold the baby...' And my aunt runs over, 'Don't you give her that baby! You know she dropped the baby Jesus!'”

“My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.”

Firsts Kind Moving Father Felt Parent Brother Spring My Family Moved Enthusiastic Diplomats Lebanon Older Brother Embassy

Author:Greg Kinnear

“Although my Dad was a talented calligrapher and both of my younger brothers were successful, I was the first one in my family to graduate from high school.”

Firsts School Successful Brother Dad High School My Family My Dad Graduates Younger Brother Graduating High School

Author:Betty Dodson

“After my family leaves in the morning, I'll make my first coffee of the day and then I head upstairs to go to work. At least, that's my plan. I'm not going to check email. I'm not going on Facebook, or sneaking a glimpse at my Instagram feed. No. I'm not going to down that road. But with multiple devices, by the time I get upstairs [to my study] I may well have heard my iPhone ding and - it's Pavlovian.”

Firsts Wells May Morning Study Plans Heard My Family Coffee Checks Devices Multiple Glimpse Email Instagram Iphone Upstairs

Author:Dani Shapiro

“Being the first to go to college in my family was a great thing, but it was also a source of guilt. I felt like almost a sellout going to college.”

Firsts Felt College Source My Family Guilt Great Things Going To College

Author:Matt de la Pena

“A psychiatrist once asked me to draw a picture of my family. This is when I was a member of a family of four. I drew the three other people in the family first, bodies and heads. And then, last, I began to draw myself - but gave up.”

People Firsts Body Lasts Three Four Members Draws My Family Gave Up Psychiatrist Family First

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“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.”

People Ifs Writing Firsts Persons Real Voice Novel Husband My Friends My Family Exes Tricky First Person Ex Husband

Author:Kate Christensen

“I'm more from a double world where I wasn't part of anything or invested in anything, because I was Irish, and very Irish, but also the other part of my family, not that it had airs, or money, was descended from the first minister on Cape Ann in the 1620s.”

World Firsts Air My Family Ministers Capes

Author:William Monahan

“First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.”

World Firsts Children Joy Family Teaching My Family Our Children Compare Brad

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I went to my first national convention in 1976, when my family supported [Ronald] Reagan over [Gerald] Ford, so we've always been Republicans, but we've always wanted the Republican Party to be the party of fiscally conservative, limited-government types. And I think, sometimes, we haven't done that as well.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Sometimes Done Government Wanted Party Havens Type Republican My Family Conservative Conventions Republican Party Limited Government Gerald Ford

Author:Rand Paul

“I was first in my family to go to college.”

Firsts College My Family

Author:Joe Biden

“Vulnerability and me go hand and hand now. I try to put myself first so that I can take care of my family so I try not to fight vulnerability as much now.”

Trying Firsts I Can Hands Care Fighting My Family Take Care Vulnerability

Author:A. J. McLean

“Not really a first thing I will buy, but the first thing I would do is take care of my mother and my family and then go from there. Whatever she needs. Not so much a house or car or material things, just making sure everything is taken care of from a family standpoint.”

Needs Firsts Care Mother House Taken Car Materials My Family Take Care Standpoint Material Things

Author:Deshaun Watson

“I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn't like history when I was in high school. I didn't study history when I was in college, none at all, and only started to do graduate study when my children were going to graduate school. What first intrigued me was this desire to understand my family and put it in the context of American history. That makes history so appealing and so central to what I am trying to do.”

Trying Firsts Children School Desire Study College High School My Family Notes My Children Graduates American History Intrigued Graduate School

Author:Adele Logan Alexander

“Half of my family is in Los Angeles, so my cousin was the first person to play me, like, Snoop Dogg, and I would always feel like 'Omg I shouldn't be listening to this,' and my other cousin was the first to introduce me to Aaliyah, so every time I'd go to the West Coast, I'd get those West Coast vibes.”

Feels Firsts Persons Play Half Listening My Family West Los Angeles Introducing Coast Cousin First Person My Cousin West Coast Vibes

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I watched the video [ with my first commercial] when I was 20, and in the video, there are two families. The first family is this smiling blond Partridge family, a Californian/Aryan kind of thing, all playing guitars, all singing together and harmonizing. And then, there's my family - and in my family, it starts with my mom saying that she feels like a drill sergeant sometimes, and she's yelling at one of my brothers to stop hitting another one of my brothers. It's just like, "Great, we're that family." It felt a little Simpsons versus Flanders.”

“Growing up after the Second World War in a Jewish family, I really understand that, and have members of my family who are very committed to this concept. My grandfather's first name was Israel and he thought it was his country. In my own sense of this issue as an American Jew, I have been on both sides of this. At this point I think it is very important for there to be separation of religion and state. It's not good for Jews. It's not good for Muslims. It's not good for Christians. The marriage of state and religion is inherently problematic.”

“I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family.”

Firsts Wanted Serious Dad First Time My Family Horse My Dad Performing Jockeys

Author:Janet Jackson

“Ninth generation American, ma'am, and I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American. And so we have not escaped because I went to Yale all the problems of this country.”

Firsts Country Problem Born Rights Generations My Family Yale

Author:Van Jones

“I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American.”

Firsts Born Rights Generations My Family

Author:Van Jones

“In the past members of my family on both my mother's and father's side have fought in the war, in the first and second World Wars. Unfortunately, they're dead and I wasn't able to speak to them, but that was in our family history too.”

World Firsts War Able Past Mother Father Speak Sides Members My Family Our Family War Of The Worlds Second World War Family History

Author:PJ Harvey

“When Andrew [Ridgeley] first met my family, he heard my mom calling me "Yorgos." He just abbreviated it to Yog, and unfortunately it stuck. I hated it is a teenager. It was not the most glamorous-sounding name in the world.”

World Firsts Names Heard Mom Calling Mets My Family My Mom Stuck Teenager Hated Glamorous Andrew

Author:George Michael

“My professional success is really important to me, and my career is really important to me. It's the most important thing to me outside of my family. I take it very seriously and work really, really hard at it. Family comes first, but this is something that's really important to me too.”

Firsts Important Hard Careers My Family Important Things Family Comes First Professional Success

Author:Ben Affleck

“The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.”

Years Firsts Four Son My Family My Son Four Years Polaroids

Author:Errol Morris

“Many things inspire me. First and foremost, my family, my husband, and our son. I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.”

Way Firsts Different Share Inspire Son Husband Appreciate My Family Different Ways My Husband Appreciate Life

Author:Alicia Keys

“I would argue with my father [Pablo Escobar] about his violent attitude and I would tell him to stop his violent ways and to think about peace as an alternative, especially given the many problems he was having. However, he would reply almost immediately by telling me "you are forgetting that the first bomb that exploded in Colombia was an attempt against you, your sister, and your mother - I did not invent narcoterrorism, narcoterrorism was first used against my family.”

Thinking Way Firsts Problem Used Mother Father Given Forget Attitude My Family Arguing Violent Alternatives Bombs Colombia Pablo Escobar

Author:Juan Pablo Escobar

“I see the joy in life and I see the joy in simple things. I over-compliment. I over-praise. I over-express my feelings toward people because I never got it in my family. I am the first to hug somebody, because I wasn't hugged.”

People Firsts Feelings Joy Simple My Family Praise Compliment Hug Simple Things

Author:Sherry Lansing

“Words can't even describe how much Olympic medals means to me, because of all the hard work, sacrifice and effort I put in at the gym, and also because of how much my family supported me and sacrificed their dreams for mine. It also means a lot to me, knowing that I became the first African American to win the individual all-around gold medal.”

Firsts Mean Hard Dream Winning Individual Effort Knowing Sacrifice Mines Hard Work My Family Gold African American Gym Medal Gold Medals Olympic Medals

Author:Gabby Douglas

“It's very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.”

Knows Firsts Important Easy Decision My Family Prioritize Family Comes First

Author:Jada Pinkett Smith

“My family really does come first. It always did and always will.”

Firsts Doe Family My Family Family Comes First

Author:Meryl Streep

“And so I look at it as a relationship that I have with him that I want to give him the honor and glory anytime I have the opportunity. And then right after I give him the honor and glory, I always try to give my teammates the honor and glory. And that's how it works because Christ comes first in my life, and then my family, and then my teammates.”

Want Giving Trying Firsts Looks Opportunity Christ Honor Glory My Family Teammate

Author:Tim Tebow

“Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.”

Thinking Men Firsts House Names Speak Sky Dog My Family Hills Officials Addresses Rulers Garbage Isle

Author:Zakk Wylde

“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.”

Firsts Persons School Social Poor Childhood College Grew Grew Up High School My Family Prepared South Psychologist Ghetto First Person Early Childhood Bronx Sicilian Poor Family

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”

“Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.”

Firsts Poverty My Family Misfortunes Sunlight Radiant Envied Family First

Author:Albert Camus

“That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocean and share a burger and talk and even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because you were the first guy who wasn't constantly trying to impress me. You accepted who you were, but more than that, you accepted me for me. And nothing else mattered-- not my family or your family or anyone else in the world. It was just us.”

World Trying Firsts Guy Share Ocean My Family Accepted Fortunate Impress Simplest Toss Burgers Best Of Me Starfish

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.”

Knows Firsts Littles Ends Left Behinds Know How Four Balance One Day First Time My Family Tables Legs Unstable Stools Sturdy

Author:Jodi Picoult

“Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.”

Firsts Family My Family Expected Family First Family Comes First Family Is Everything

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“...for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off.”

World Firsts Wells Matter Feelings Hands Happens Song Girl Voice Taken Changed Drug Band My Friends First Time My Family Wheels Getting High My Girl Sirens Steering Siren Song

Author:Anthony Kiedis

“The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.”

Firsts Wells Heaven Family Mankind Mass My Family Being Thankful About Family Boon Lovely Family Funny Family Reunion Love Life And Family Family First

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

“It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine. First and most important, my family, my friends, my staff, my cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.”

People Knows Feels Firsts Has Beens Important Hurt Sorrow My Friends My Family Genuine Apology Staff Cabinets Been Hurt Monica

Author:William J. Clinton

“At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy.”

People Firsts Energy My Family Presses Upset Life Lesson Get Real Bad Press

Author:Hilary Duff

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