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The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.
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The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.
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The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.
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The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.
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The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.
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The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him.
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The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
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The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.
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The first time I was on 'Johnny Carson,' I remember being so scared, but the minute he started talking to me, I felt a little more comfortable because I just knew he was going to take care of me. Hopefully, I have learned something from watching him for so many years that I can offer that to a guest.
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The first time I went to Sturgis, I remember thinking, 'This motorcycle thing, this is me.'
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The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations.
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The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.
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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.
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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.
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