#first

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

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But, I didn't get my first break until I was 17. ↗

— Stephen Dorff

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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first! ↗

— Donald Wills Douglas

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It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

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How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican. ↗

— Will Durst

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I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. ↗

— John Lennon

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First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds. ↗

— Charles S. Dutton

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I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid. ↗

— Michael East

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