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“My audience is comprised of three categories. The first category contains the people who decide after the first five minutes that they've made a mistake and leave. The second category is the people who give the film a chance and leave annoyed after 40 minutes. The third category includes the people that watch the whole film and return to see it again. If I'm able to persuade 33% of the audience to stay, then I can say that I've succeeded.”

People Ifs Giving Firsts Made I Can Whole Able Film Three Chance Mistake Watches Audience Five Minutes Return Thirds Categories Five Minutes Annoyed Made A Mistake

Author:Peter Greenaway

“The images are visual, auditory, olfactory, kinesthetic. They aren't laid down on the same tracks as thought. And sometimes, when they return to you, it is as if you feel them for the very first time. Memory lives on in the details, like the color of a room, a tone of a voice, the touch of a child, the smell of a man.”

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Author:Martha Manning

“I was keen to direct an action film, and when Reliance approached me for the remake of Singham, I saw an opportunity to return to my first love.”

Firsts Action Film Opportunity Saws Return Direct First Love Reliance Remakes Action Films

Author:Rohit Shetty

“The West doesn't have to love us. In fact, we should ask ourselves more often why people are so suspicious of us. After all, the West isn't a charity organization. How have we been perceived for centuries? As a huge, warlike realm ruled by despots - first by the czars and then Bolsheviks. Why should anyone have loved us? If we want to be accepted, we have to do something in return. And it's an art that we have yet to master.”

People Ifs Want Should Firsts Art Facts Asks Century Masters Huge Return Organization West Charity Accepted Realms Suspicious Despots Bolsheviks Czars

Author:Vladislav Surkov

“As I said, there are two approaches-first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of stability, and a return to the boom and bust of the 1990s.”

Firsts Said Two Helping Strong Economy Cutting Return Approach Stability Undermining Strong Economy

Author:Alistair Darling

“The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again”

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Author:Eudora Welty

“First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund.”

Firsts Values Company Return Fund

Book:Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“We love being in business with Guillermo [Del Toro]and frankly that movie, if you look it up, did I think more business than the first X-Men, did more than Batman Begins, our first movie, did more than Superman Returns, The Fast and the Furious, Star Trek- so for a movie that was an original property that we made up it's done really well.”

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Author:Thomas Tull

“I sustained an injury by singing with the flu during the second performance of Andrea Chenier in Buenos Aires. I was very sick, with chills and sweats, but against my better judgement I let them talk me into singing. Of course I gave the performance everything I had and my voice was hurt. It was scary at first, but fortunately there was no permanent damage. I just had to be patient and wait for the voice to return. It took six weeks of physical recuperation and it took time to recover my confidence as well.”

Firsts Wells Courses Waiting Voice Hurt Week Return Six Singing Performances Sick Patient Scary Permanent Judgement Damage Injury Sweat Chill Be Patient Flu Andrea Buenos Aires Recuperation

Author:Ben Heppner

“Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will.”

Knows Men Firsts Littles Wish Principles Return Conflict Filled Very Good Cease Good Man Patriotic Iniquity

Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

“Your taxes are due a week from today. You can make out your check directly to Halliburton. Or you can do what I'm going to do. I'm filing my first joint return. No, I'm not getting married, I'm sending the IRS an actual joint with a note that says, 'If you think I'm paying for this war, you must be high.'”

Ifs Thinking Firsts War Today Can Do Week Return Taxes Married Notes Dues Checks Joints Getting Married Irs Make Out Filing

Author:Bill Maher

“Well, in Washington, this is a very hard time for Eleanor and Franklin. This is when Lucy Mercer first appears. And Lucy Mercer is Eleanor Roosevelt's own secretary. Very beautiful young woman, not unlike Eleanor Roosevelt: tall, blonde, thick haired. And FDR is having an affair with her, which Eleanor Roosevelt finds out when FDR returns from Europe in 1918 with the famous flu of 1918.”

Firsts Wells Hard Beautiful Young Return Europe Affair Hard Times Tall Thick Secretary Young Women Flu Blonde Franklin Very Beautiful Lucy Eleanor

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“If your company matches your 401(k) contribution, then no matter what, contribute to your 401(k) first. You put in a dollar, they put in 50 cents. It's an automatic 50 percent return on your money. You can't pass that up. I'd rather have the 50 percent than pay 32 percent interest on a credit card.”

Ifs Firsts Matter Interest Pay Company Return Percent No Matter What Dollars Credit Cards Contribution Cents Credit Card

Author:Suze Orman

“So if Hillary [Clinton] is elected president, it will make history in two ways. She'll be the first woman president. And Bill Clinton, he'll be the first man and the first former president to return to the White House in the capacity of spouse.”

Ifs Men Way Firsts Two House President White Return Capacity Bills Clinton Former White House Spouse Two Ways

Author:Terry Gross

“My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a Small Planet." I learned that if I could just show up, in this case, if I could just get myself out of bed, get to the computer in my tiny office at MIT, and start writing, help would start arriving.”

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Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“You've got to ask yourself, why won't Donald Trump release his tax returns? I think there may be a couple of reasons. First, maybe he's not as rich as he says he is. Second, maybe he's not as charitable as he claims to be. Third, we don't know all of his business dealings, but we have been told through investigative reporting that he owes about $650 million to Wall Street and foreign banks. Or maybe he doesn't want the American people to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“My return to the theater in New York was so specific. I didn't want it to be about leveraging my exposure or my fame, so the first show I did in New York was an ensemble piece at an Off-Broadway theater, and I wanted to make sure that it was just about the play and about the experience.”

Want Firsts Play Shows Wanted Pieces New York Return Fame Theater Broadway Exposure Ensemble

Author:Zachary Quinto

“I came to America when I was seven and a half in 91. I think the first full length book in English that I read was Return to Oz when I was nine years old.”

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Author:Mila Kunis

“The best songs of this [modern] period - the apocalyptic "High Water," for example - return [Bob] Dylan to where he was in his first phase, updating and transforming American traditional music.”

Firsts Song Water Modern Example Return Periods Traditional Bob Phases Dylan Transforming Apocalyptic Traditional Music

Author:Jay Michaelson

“Donald Trump is the first candidate ever to run for president in the last 40-plus years who has not released his tax returns, so everything he says about charity or anything else, we can't prove it.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“It's the first time in U.S. history a presidential candidate has not revealed his tax returns, or a president.I think that the poll ratings are in the gutter right now, right? Donald Trump's, even before he's been inugurated.”

Thinking Firsts President Return Trump Right Now Taxes First Time Presidential Candidates Polls Rating Presidential Candidate Gutters Tax Returns

Author:Katrina vanden Heuvel

“I believe that Israel must concede to the Palestinian right of return in principle. Israel must, first of all, assume its responsibility for what happened in 1948, as far as we are to blame - and we are to blame for a great part of it, if not for all - and we must recognize in principle the right of refugees to return.”

Ifs Firsts Believe I Believe Responsibility Principles Happened Return Blame Assuming Israel Palestinian Refugee

Author:Uri Avnery

“At some stage, as the water tables are dropping and the minerals that remain in the mountains are being taken out, we are going to confront a crisis from which we cannot return. The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.”

People Firsts Water Taken Stage Return Mountain Solutions Crisis Tables Come Up Dropping Minerals

Author:Arundhati Roy

“We are in tough economic times right now, and the first thing we have to do is look at how we're spending the dollars that we have, and at what kind of return on investment we're getting. Because I think it will show that spending more money without fixing the fundamental flaws in the system won't produce anything different in terms of results. In DC, we were spending a whole lot of money on things that had no positive impact on students' achievement levels.”

“Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.”

Thinking Firsts Ideas Stars Novel Sweet Return Notes Bunch No Idea Impulse Mail Stamps Blown Away

Author:Anne Lamott

“A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.”

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Book:The Prince

Source: The Prince

“A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!”

Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ

“When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.”

Firsts Together Suffering Loss Grief Our Lives Childhood Return Periods Anguish Early Childhood

Book:A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

Source: A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.”

“Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.”

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Author:Hiromu Arakawa

“For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.”

Feels Firsts Made Feelings Pain Felt Alive Return First Time Violent

Author:Ayn Rand

“If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.”

Source: The letters of Martha Gellhorn

“There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden.”

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Book:The devil tree

Source: The devil tree

“Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place? This deciduous business alone is a radical scheme, the brainchild of a deranged manic-depressive with limitless capital. Extravagance! Nature will try anything once.”

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.”

“For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave. There is the city where you arrive for the first time; and there is another city which you leave never to return. Each deserves a different name; perhaps I have already spoken of Irene under other names; perhaps I have spoken only of Irene.”

Firsts Different Names Cities One Thing Return Deserve First Time Trapped Entering Different Names

Book:Invisible Cities

Source: Invisible Cities

“Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers.”

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Author:Leon Uris

“Heavily and hypnotically,with her soul flattening itself back like the ears of a hissing cat,Kizzy leaned in and drank of Jack Husk's full,moist mouth,and his red,red lips were hungry against hers,drinking her in return.Their eyes closed.Fingers clutched at collars and hair,at the picnic blanket,at the grass.And as they sank down,pinning their shadows beneath them,the horizon tipped on its side,and slowly,thickly,hour by hour,the day spilled out and ebbed away. It was Kizzy's first kiss, and maybe it was her last, and it was delicious.”

Source: Lips Touch: Three Times

“We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what really was, what it meant.”

Knows Firsts Moments Certain Memories One Thing Return First Time Hearing

Author:Colum McCann

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