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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
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The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
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The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.
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The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar too high for yourself! Then the rest of the school year, you'll feel so much pressure! Wear something cute, but save your best outfit for a day when no one expects it.
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The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
Source: Bruce Springsteen Talking -
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
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The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
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The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
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The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
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The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
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The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.
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The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.
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