#first of all

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical. ↗

— Christian Bale

#came #cape #covering #damn #damn thing

First of all it has never been the case that I have threatened people with expulsion or that I've threatened to throw people out of the Parliamentary Labour Party. ↗

— Ron Davies

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First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos. ↗

— Nina Blackwood

#choose #companies #first #first of all #got

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#first of all #forget #gentlemen #ladies #must

You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#first #first of all #get #give #respect

Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#everybody #exception #first #first of all #going

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#carefully #everything #first #first of all #good

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids. ↗

— Bill Condon

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First of all I thought it was ugly, I thought it was ridiculous that undercover police guys would drive a striped tomato and I've never been a big champion of Ford. ↗

— Paul M. Glaser

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