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“Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Get a life in which you pay attention to the baby as she scowls with concentration when she tried to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.”

Firsts Water Pay Attention Watches Baby Picks Red Fingers Smell Circles Pay Attention Concentration Pushing Salt Breeze Thumbs Ponds Hawks Salt Water

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I didn't have toys and bikes; I'd go out and pick up rocks. I was into science and nature. It was my first love. I was going to be a vet and a marine biologist. I went to university and studied biology for two weeks and I just thought: "I've been conned!"”

Firsts Two Week Rocks Picks University Biology Toys First Love Bike Marine Two Weeks Biologist Vets Marine Biologist

Author:Ricky Gervais

“How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?”

Knows Firsts Moving Sex Picks Universal Let Me Sticks Metaphor Fancy Locks

Author:Ned Vizzini

“When I heard 'Dookie' by Green Day for the first time, it unlocked something in me, like, it's totally okay that I'm a little bit weird because these guys are a little bit weird. It made me want to pick up an instrument and do that.”

Want Firsts Littles Made Guy Bits Heard Little Bit Picks First Time Okay Instruments Green

Author:Pete Wentz

“For the most part we do not first see, and then define, we define first and then see. In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick out what our culture has already defined for us, and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture.”

World Firsts Form Culture Picks Confusion Defined Perceive Blooming Outer Worlds

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

“I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool. There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.”

Source: Works, including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition: withletters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“Researchers have found that people oblivious to the haunting phenomena when they first enter the haunted site are likely to pick up something in the same spots in the house as the primary witnesses who reported the haunting. This indicates that something actually exists in the environment at those spots on some level, physical or psychic.”

People Firsts Found House Levels Environment Picks Spots Witness Primaries Site Psychics Haunting Researchers Oblivious

Book:Ghost Hunting: How to Investigate the Paranormal

Source: Ghost Hunting: How to Investigate the Paranormal

“To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be a last resort, not a first choice. I truly must question the judgment of any president who can say that a massive unprovoked military attack on a nation which is over 50 percent children is ‘in the highest moral traditions of our country.'”

Firsts Children War Country Lasts Choices Nations Peace President Moral Military Judgment Highest Picks Percent Tradition Cards Our Country Fifty Massive Resorts

Author:Robert Byrd

“We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.”

Writing Firsts Stories Wanted Literature Picks

Author:Kevin J. Anderson

“You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.”

Firsts Song Records Week Fans Couple Shapes Picks Critics Guitar Reactions Phrases Ireland Load Autobiography Baggage

Author:Ellie Goulding

“Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?”

Firsts Play Able Sound Black Differences White Emotion Music Color Picks Down And Notes Paint Guitar Extremes

Author:Les Paul

“Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they grab is an iron hook.”

Firsts Humor Funny Objects Picks Teeth Chairs Iron Metals Hook Dentist

Author:Bill Cosby

“Stock up your pantry and your freezer with things that aren't perishable: Your favorite jar of tomato sauce that lists "tomato" as the first ingredient, lots of grains, olive oils, vinegars, tomato pastes, onions, shallots. When you go to the store, you only have to pick up meats and produce.”

Firsts Produce Picks Oil Stores Lists Meat Ingredients Grain Sauce Jars Onions Tomatoes Olives Your Favorite Vinegar Olive Oil Pantry Freezer

Author:Giada De Laurentiis

“Honey, you [Michael Jackson] gotta pick a race first. All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're Diana Ross, now you're Audrey Hepburn. Then he's got the little beard going on. He's like Lord of the Rings, the entire cast. Michael's about to jump species.”

Men Firsts Littles Black Race Lord Picks Species Casts Rings Honey Beard Diana Hepburn Audrey

Author:Robin Williams

“As far as looking at myself on screen, I tend to pick out every single flaw that I could have or should have done better. I'm more of a cringer at first and when it is years down the road and out of my way, I can actually appreciate it somehow.”

Way Should Years Firsts I Can Done Picks Appreciate Should Have Screens My Way Flaws Down The Road

Author:Zac Efron

“I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks me - via a question I can't answer as a mom, a wife, a woman, an American. I find myself wondering "What if..." and it blossoms into a whole novel.”

Ifs Firsts I Can Book Whole Facts Answers Wonder Novel Wife Mom Goodness Picks What If Topics Ifs And Pick Me Wondering What If

Author:Jodi Picoult

“As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.”

Trying Firsts Stories Reader Picks First Time Keep Going Impersonate

Author:George Saunders

“Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know?”

People Knows Firsts Wells Kind Book Mines Picks First Time Letters

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I like poems that immediately claim my attention, instead of taking my attention for granted. At first read, I want to feel compelled to pick up the poem again; I want to be curious about its byways and secret corners.”

Want Feels Firsts Secret Attention Picks Claims Corners Curious Granted Compelled

Author:James Arthur

“Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.”

Thinking Knows Men Writing Trying Firsts Wells Looks Mean I Can Play Whole Inspiration Happens Together Song Grows Causes Special Picks First Time Guitar Plenty Tunes Songwriting

Author:Bob Marley

“If I see a movie for the first time on DVD, I watch it all the way through, the lights are down, I don't pick up the phone. The third or fourth time you see a movie, sometimes you just have them on and you check in every once in a while with things that you liked. I think it's a different expectations from that environment.”

Ifs Thinking Way Firsts Different Sometimes Light Watches Environment Picks Expectations First Time Thirds Phones Checks Fourth Dvds

Author:David Fincher

“The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin and start to play, the kind of melodies that just pour out of me. Some of them sound very classical. Some of them sound experimental, polyrhythmic loops that I make.”

Firsts Kind Play Stuff Bits Sound Records Picks Checks Melody Violin Loops

Author:Andrew Bird

“I take the typical words, or I pick a two-word, three-word pattern. One of the things I'm known for is I was one of the first rappers to end their bars rhyming multisyllabically.”

Firsts Two Ends Three Known Picks Patterns Bars Rapper Typical Rhyming Three Words

Author:Bun B

“First truck called a 'pick-up' was an International Harvester S in 1921.”

Firsts Picks International Truck

Author:L. M. Boyd

“The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the character's self-delusions. Really all the advantages are with first-person, so I'm sorry I don't get to pick and choose.”

Writing Firsts Persons Self Character Picks Advantage Let Me Sorry Delusion I'm Sorry Enjoyable First Person Viewpoints Self Delusion

Author:Anne Tyler

“An established property can be a blessing and a challenge. On one hand you have all those fans of the original that you can pick up with and continue on with but then you have a lot of people out there who haven't seen the first and might feel like this isn't a movie for them because of that.”

People Feels Firsts Hands Might Challenges Fans Havens Blessing Picks Originals Property

Author:Joseph Kosinski

“Women need to turn their attention from saving their spouse, their mothers, their this, their that, their kids, to putting that financial oxygen mask on their face first. When they're solid, they can pick up the whole world.”

World Needs Firsts Whole Kids Faces Mother Turns Attention Picks Financial Whole World Saving Mask Spouse Oxygen

Author:Suze Orman

“I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the counter and say, 'Do you have any first-class seats?'”

Want Firsts Shows Walks Class Picks Seats Destination Airports Tourists First Class

Author:Edgerrin James

“If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick.”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens Football College Picks Rounds

Author:Antonio Gates

“I came up and was a first-round draft pick and there was a lot of hype and a lot of expectation, and I enjoyed that. Have I also seen the other side of that? Absolutely.”

Firsts Sides Picks Expectations Rounds Enjoyed Hype

Author:Pat Burrell

“Being young and being first-round picks and everything, people look up to you and look for you to lead. It's something Brett and I are able to do, and we can use each other to help each other out.”

People Firsts Looks Helping Use Able Young Picks Rounds Look Up Up To You Helping Each Other

Author:Cole Hamels

“When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature.”

Firsts Bigs Picks Rounds League Mature

Author:Evan Longoria

“After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God. We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven.”

“Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty four hours.”

Men Firsts Guy Fall Jesus Christ Hours Four Picks Jesus Christ Twenties

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Paste Magazine needs to stay in business! It's the first non-sensational quality music and film publication that doesn't only attempt to appeal to middle-aged male Bob Dylan completionists! And there are still many of us who love to pick up a print magazine instead of going online.”

Needs Firsts Stills Film Quality Middle Picks Males Magazines Appeals Online Print Bob Dylan Publication Middle Aged Sensational Quality Music

Author:Nina Persson

“I think early on it's important to put that at the back of your mind and make your own choices. Sometimes you do pick the same choices, just as a matter of course - not because someone else did it first, but because it was the best choice to make. But any actor worth his salt makes something their own.”

Thinking Mind Firsts Important Sometimes Matter Choices Courses Actors Picks Salt Make Your Own Choices

Author:Jacki Weaver

“I pick first my best team, and my captain from that team and I only pick players that are on form.”

Firsts Form Player Team Picks Captains Best Team

Author:Rudolph Straeuli

“I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.”

Firsts School Sports College Picks High School Rounds Yankees Pitcher Shortstops Outfielders

Author:Bo Jackson

“We broke up, and my first reaction was 'Fine - I've been through this too many times. I can't change your mind. I can't live your life for you. You're gone in your direction. I'm going to pick up; I'm going to go in my direction. I'm not going to live in the past. I'm not going to embrace the pain. You go, I'll go, and that will be it.' And I felt that way for an hour and 10 minutes.”

Way Mind Firsts I Can Pain Past Felt Hours Gone Minutes Fine Picks Embrace Reactions Broke Live Your Life Can't Change Changing Your Mind Broke Up

Author:Dana Gould

“When I first saw Spiderman, I had no idea who he was. I later read in an article that he doesn't work much because he only picks projects he believes in.”

Firsts Believe Ideas Saws Projects Picks No Idea Articles

Author:Tobey Maguire

“Thank heavens when the first single Bye Bye came off this album work started to pick up, then I'm Alright has taken us across the world. Radio has been very good, it has chosen to be kind to us.”

World Firsts Kind Has Beens Heaven Taken Picks Very Good Radio Albums Chosen Be Kind Alright Bye Bye Bye

Author:Jo Dee Messina

“I used to play the drums. When I was 11 I got my first professional job, I played drums in a cabary and played Elvis and stuff, I used to play left handed actually. Then I started to pick up the guitar when I was around 15, but I played the drums for a long time.”

Firsts Long Play Jobs Used Left Stuff Long Time Picks Guitar Left Handed

Author:Francis Dunnery

“Yeah. It's all in the music first. The music is like women to me. It's like how you pick your music: everybody got their own different way how they pick their women and their music, and I guess that's what the album becomes.”

Way Firsts Different Music Is Picks Yeah Albums Different Ways

Author:Ghostface Killah

“When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.”

Firsts War Ends Home Together Mother Pieces Doors Fields Picks Daughter Stones Destroyed Mother And Daughter Haul

Author:Zainab Salbi

“Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.”

Men Firsts Kids Able Picks Eggs Timer

Author:Tom Hollander

“As a network, they're not the network that usually picks things up after the first episode airs. They definitely have a methodology that they follow. But they're very happy with the show [Into the Badlands]and they're very excited with how it's performed.”

Firsts Shows Air Picks Excited Episodes Very Happy Methodology

Author:Alfred Gough

“I write first drafts feverishly fast, and then I spend years editing. It's not that sentence-by-sentence perfectionist technique some writers I admire use. I need to see the thing, in some form, and then work with it over and over and over until it makes sense to me - until its concerns approach me, until its themes come to my attention. At that editing stage, the story picks itself and it's just up to me to see it, to find it. If I've done a good job, what it all means will force me to confront it in further edits.”

“It's the luxury of time that lets me in some ways now spoil myself. I get my workout in every day. I get a good, long sleep every day. I won't say they're guilty pleasures. When I first left Microsoft, I would say I spent the better part of a year saying, "OK, how do I get as busy and crazy and manic as I was at Microsoft?" Since then I said, "No, I'll make a bigger contribution in this phase of my life by being able to pick and choose, not being so manic, having time to step back, a little more time for what I'll call discernment rather than just activity."”

“I don't like it when people ask me what my favourite Beatles song is. I always get that. First of all, I don't like having to pick a favourite thing anyway. You can't pick a favourite Beatles song! What about "Strawberry Fields"? What about "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"? What about "Tomorrow Never Knows"? Come on. That question is small minded to think you could even have a favourite Beatles song.”

People Thinking Knows Firsts Song Asks Sky Fields Tomorrow Picks Ask Me Diamond Favourite Lucy Strawberries Small Minds Favourite Things

Author:Kemp Muhl

“Everything was so designed by Hannibal to break down Will in the first season, until Will's sanity became questionable. It's so much easier to believe that somebody losing their mind is capable of terrible things than it is to consider Frasier Crane, a charming, fun doctor who invites you to dinner. If you put those two in a police lineup, you're going to pick the guy who's melting down.”