#irs

I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts. ↗

— Judy Blume

#always #brain #down #draft #drafts

On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#bush #complacency #contrary #even #first

I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them. ↗

— David Blunkett

#amnesty #any #available #because #cards

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene. ↗

— Emily Blunt

#clothes #everyone #first #i #just

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#day #english #first #half #heart

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#begin #citizen #feel #first #first amendment

I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there. ↗

— Dennis Eckersley

#anxious #first #game #get #go

It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#charlie #director #dizzy #first #i

I was the first Blunt ever elected to anything. ↗

— Roy Blunt

#blunt #elected #ever #first #i

I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes. ↗

— Don Bluth

#coming #danger #doing #dragon #first