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“I remember my first standup act when I was seventeen; I did a really lame song about being flat chested. I was doing it in New York, and I remember Kevin Brennan, the guy I lost my virginity to, was like "That song doesn't make sense, you have tits."”

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Author:Sarah Silverman

“The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on the bookshelf at the back of my fifth-grade classroom, an adult book. I can remember the quality of the morning on which I read. It was a sunlit morning in January, a Saturday morning, cold, high, empty. I sat in a rectangle of sunlight, near the grate of the floor heater in the yellow bedroom. And as I read, I became aware of warmth and comfort and optimism. I was made aware of my comfort by the knowledge that others were not, are not, comforted. Carl Rowan at my age was not comforted.”

“The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be dead before we got to the Dancing Class.”

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Book:Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood

Source: Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood

“Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.”

Firsts Whole Remember Worst Building Weakness Critics Crafts Blueprints

Author:Tobsha Learner

“You must realize first of all that you are the proof of everything, including yourself. None can prove your existence, because his existence must be confirmed by you first. Your being and knowing you owe nobody. Remember, you are entirely on your own. You do not come from somewhere, you do not go anywhere. You are timeless being and awareness.”

Firsts Remember Realizing Existence Knowing Awareness Prove Including Proof Timeless Remember You Remembers You

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“I am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the clinic, and the great game of Hunt-the Complex began, to the entertainment and alarm of a war-shattered and disillusioned world.”

World Firsts War Enough Remember Games Study Theory Complexes Entertainment Hunts Psychiatry Alarms Shattered Clinic Disillusioned

Author:Mary Butts

“I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and my books are the first items I pack into a suitcase. I am the person who family and friends call when they need a book recommendation or cannot remember who wrote Heidi. My identity as a person is so entwined with my love of reading and books that I cannot separate the two.”

“I remember reading Disturbia, one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go "Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?"”

Want Firsts Remember Guy Reading House Scripts

Author:Alex Pettyfer

“But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress. And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry. And it took me years to learn enough to live up to what they said-for those first notices. I find it so stupid. I remember the critic very well, and have never forgiven him.”

“The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.”

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Author:Alicia Keys

“I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, My god, hes going to know all the things I dont want people to know. I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.”

People Knows Want Mind Firsts Remember Grass Unconditional Love Embarrassed Unconditional Guru

Author:Ram Dass

“I remember the very first suit I bought. It was a three-piece denim suit with bell-bottoms.”

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Author:Grant Show

“Embrace failure. Never never quit. Get very comfortable with that uneasy feeling of going against the grain and trying something new. It will constantly take you places you never thought you could go. This has been my mantra for years. I always remember I won't do things right on the first try. So failure is mandatory for success!”

Trying Years Firsts Has Beens Feelings Remember Comfortable Embrace Quitting Something New Grain Never Quit Mantras Uneasy Trying Something Trying Something New Uneasy Feelings

Author:Terry Crews

“I remember when I first moved to L.A. from Michigan when I was 11 years old and I walked down the Walk of Fame and looked at the hand and foot prints of the stars and it was the coolest thing. And I never thought that mine would actually be there one day, so when it happened it was so surreal and such an honor”

Years Firsts Hands Remember Stars Walks Happened Feet Mines Honor One Day Fame Moved Print Remember When Surreal Michigan Hands And Feet

Author:Taylor Lautner

“It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people. With that in mind, it's important to remember that the work that we do as writers, artists and performers will form an essential part of the collective memory that future generations will draw upon. And so we owe it to those future generations to defend that memory and be honest witnesses to our times.”

“The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.”

Firsts Important Bigs Remember Work Streets Wall Shots Sells Somewhere Else Remember You Remembers You Big Shots

Book:Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom

Source: Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom

“A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom's skirt and asked. "Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don't?" At the time, I remember thinking two things: First, I would've knelt down and asked Hannah, "Did I have a light over my head? Please say yes!" I also wondered what Hannah had seen, and whether she had seen it because, like my son, she had a childlike faith.”

“When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.”

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Author:John Irving

“I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.”

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Author:Norman Foster

“I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk rock performer' and in the blues clubs I'd be a 'folk blues entertainer.'”

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Author:Richie Havens

“From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody Ive ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.”

Knows Firsts I Can Moments Remember Father Player Bass Bass Players

Author:Edgar Meyer

“I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.”

Firsts Remember Situation Laughing Tvs Amendments Remember When First Amendment Suspended Messed Up Miley

Author:Bobby Jindal

“I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists”

Firsts Remember Night Sound Spring Window Snow Every Night Scent Melting Melting Snow

Author:John J. Geddes

“I remember doing one day of work, and I was so good I ended up doing 25 days on that movie. And all of it ended up on the editing room floor. That was my first Hollywood lesson: Just because you filmed a movie doesn't necessarily mean that you're in it.”

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Author:Eddie Griffin

“Even if I remember the first time perfectly, I don't remember the beginning at all. I mean: the beginning of addiction. It's hard to say when it becomes a problem; it sneaks up on you like a sun shower.”

Ifs Firsts Mean Hard Problem Remember Sun First Time Addiction Showers Sneak

Book:More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

Source: More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

“It's unclear who moves first. We're in each other's arms, lips locked, melded, hotly fused. Our hands drag over each other, reacquainting, remembering, almost as if we're both verifying the other one is real flesh and blood.”

Ifs Firsts Real Hands Remember Moving Blood Arms Lips Flesh Locked Drag Flesh And Blood Unclear

Author:Sophie Jordan

“I remember the first Mortal Kombat, when that came out, that was the hardest game of all time. There would be lines at the arcade around the block, and I still love all of the Mortal Kombat games.”

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Author:Diego Corrales

“I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.”

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Author:Daley Thompson

“The first time I remember really being excited about a book was The Count of Monte Cristo.”

Firsts Book Remember First Time Excited Monte Cristo

Author:Scott Turow

“The art school party in Liverpool, in a flat in the students' accomdation, was the first all night party I ever went to...I puked up next morning. Cynthia was there, and I remember saying drunkenly to her 'I wish I had a nice girl like you'”

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Author:George Harrison

“The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.”

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Author:Miranda Cosgrove

“It's funny because looking back at my first contest, I was 15 and surfing the Haleiwa contest wearing this tiny bikini. I remember not even thinking twice about wearing it - I just thought it was normal.”

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Author:Alana Blanchard

“I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.”

Firsts Wells Remember Left Acting Changed Television News Female Life Changing Reporters Television News

Author:Lynne Reid Banks

“The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.”

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Author:Anthony Browne

“The first time I watched television I felt exactly as if something important had taken an elevator ride up to my head and gotten off and turned on the light in my mind. I knew that I was going to do something in television. It was in my cards. I remember feeling the warm relief of knowing where my future was.”

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Book:A Big Life in Advertising

Source: A Big Life in Advertising

“Texas Governor Rick Perry now says his wife has been encouraging him to run for President. Remember first he told us God told him to run; now his wife is telling him to run. Of course, the big difference; if you ignore what God says you don't have to hear about it until the afterlife. That's the only difference.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“Why do people take notice of first snowfalls but not the last days of snow? Remember the last too.”

People Firsts Lasts Remember Snow Last Day Snowfall

Author:Yoseob

“We are visual creatures. When you doodle an image that captures the essence of an idea, you not only remember it, but you also help other people understand and act on it - which is generally the point of meetings in the first place.”

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Author:Tom Wujec

“What I remember most are some of the guys in the background - who they were and what kind of times we had during those days on the set. I remember staying at Mikes house in Hollywood when we first started filming the series. It was the upper story of a two-story building on a little hillside. Mikes wife, Phyllis, was wonderful. Mike and I laughed a lot and played music together. I remember that time very fondly.”

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Author:Peter Tork

“After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and Eve did when they ate the fruit was to discover that they had no clothes on. They were embarrassed. Embarrassment was the first consequence of the Fall. And embarrassment was the first literary consequence of this modernist discovery of the surface. "Am I telling a story? Oh my God, this is terrible. I must stop telling a story and focus on the minute gradations of consciousness as they filter through somebody's.”

“One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.”

“Right before when the iMac came out is when most people associate Apple started. That's when people remember Apple - that first iMac or that first laptop that was a clam shell. To me everything before that was what was interesting.”

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Author:Joshua Michael Stern

“My mom used to wear the fragrance Poison when I was younger, and I remember that scent and the purple bottle. That was my first [perfume] memory.”

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Author:John Slattery

“My earliest memories about music are connected with going to church and listening to organ music. I am not from a musical family, actually, and I remember my first musical fascination to be for organ music. I wanted to become an organist and not a pianist.”

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Author:Rafal Blechacz

“I remember when I first started having these interpretations of these images, these clichés of what movie stars are and this and that, and they're egomaniacal pricks and tyrants, but in general, for the most part, they're nice people to tell you the truth.”

People Firsts Remember Stars Nice Interpretation Tyrants Remember When Movie Star Nice People

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I remember the first check I got from The Who's recording [of "Young Man Blues"]. I'd been getting checks for $10 and $15 and so forth, and this one was for a much larger amount than that. I thought it was a mistake.”

Men Firsts Remember Young Mistake Amount Checks Young Man

Author:Mose Allison

“Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.”

Firsts Remember England Remains Britain Immigrants Obscure Barbarians

Book:Tacitus on Britain and Germany: a translation of the Agricola and the Germania

Source: Tacitus on Britain and Germany: a translation of the Agricola and the Germania

“At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.”

Men Firsts Wells Remember He Man Intellectual Discussion Attainment

Author:Anna Garlin Spencer

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