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  • Charlotte Brontë I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
    Jane Eyre (1847) ch. 6
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Bryan Batt I can't tell you the thrill and joy of when I was cast in my first Broadway show. Granted, it was 'Starlight Express' and it was exhausting, but it was my first time on Broadway, and there was nothing like it.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bryan Cogman I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it was the first of the books I read as a writer on 'Game of Thrones,' so all I could do is think, 'We're going to have to shift that,' 'We won't be able to afford that,' or 'That's a great scene.'
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Anthony Holden I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bruce Cockburn I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I do know that technologically humanity now has the opportunity, for the first time in its history, to operate our planet in such a manner as to support and accommodate all humanity at a substantially more advanced standard of living than any humans have ever experienced.
    Grunch of Giants (1983)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Peter Ustinov I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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  • Arne Jacobsen I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Ernest Hemingway I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Ben Folds I don't get
    Many things right the first time
    In fact, I am told that a lot
    Now I know all the wrong turns
    And stumbles and falls
    Brought me here.
    Lyrics The Luckiest, Rockin the Suburbs (2001)
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Astrid Lindgren I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
    Astrid Lindgren
    Swedish children's book and novelist (1907 - 2002)
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  • Jacques Maritain I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
    Jacques Maritain
    French Catholic philosopher (1882 - 1973)
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  • Zelda Fitzgerald I don't want to live - I want to love first, and live incidentally.
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    American novelist, socialite, and painter (1900 - 1948)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Bruce Sutter I feel like a pioneer with the split-fingered fastball. I was the first one to really throw it pretty much 100 percent of the time. It was a pitch that I had to have. If I didn't have it, I wouldn't have been in the big leagues.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question ''Why did you start using narcotics in the first place?'' should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • August Wilson I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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