First Person Quotes - Page 4

• Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.

  Robert Hass

  Firsts, Milton, Sonnet

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Time, School, Talking

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• Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Views, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Paper, Firsts, Speak

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• I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Guy, Want, Firsts

  Randa Abdel-Fattah (2014). “Does My Head Look Big in This?”, p.178, Scholastic UK

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• A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind and accepting to the point of not defending herself or other people, that she must not rock the boat for any reason, you are NOT strengthening her posocial sense, you are damaging it-and the first person she will stop protecting is herself.

  Martha Stout

  Daughter, Rocks, People

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• To be a DJ was to be God. To be a DJ at an alternative public radio station ? That was being God with a mission. It was thinking you were the first person to discover The Clash and you had to spread the word.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Thinking, Alternatives, Radio

  Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty and the Midnight Hour”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• Your father is the first person to tell me that I am lovely who seemed to mean it. The only people who've told me that before were ones who think they're supposed to flatter a princess' 'I think you're lovely,' murmured Eadric. 'Only because you love me,' I said. 'Hmm,' he said, kissing me before I could say anything else.

  E.D. Baker

  Father, Princess, Mean

  E.D. Baker (2008). “Once Upon a Curse”, p.206, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.

  Jodi Picoult

  Kissing, Important, Lasts

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• What happened, then? You're stomping through every puddle you can find and look like you're going to punch the first person you see." "Why are you hanging around, then? Aren't you worried about getting hit?" "Aw, you'd never hurt me. My face is too pretty

  Richelle Mead

  Hurt, Puddles, Looks

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.22, Penguin

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• I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay?

  Stephen Chbosky

  Love You, Kissing, Want

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Alex: Rosie, I wanted you to be the first person to no that I’ve decided to become a heart surgeon! Rosie: Cool, does it pay well? Alex: Rosie, it’s not about the money. Rosie: Where I come from, it’s all about the money. Probably because I don’t have any.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Heart, Doe, Alex

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• She was the first person on either side of her family to go to college, and she held herself to insanely high standards. She worried a lot about whether she was good enough. It was surprising to see how relieved she seemed whenever I told her how amazing she was. I wanted her to feel strong and free. She was beautiful when she was free.

  Rob Sheffield

  Beautiful, Strong, College

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.67, Crown Archetype

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• you might not be the first person l kissed, but you will be the last' Jamie to Claire in Outlander (not word perfect)

  Diana Gabaldon

  Perfect, Might, Lasts

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• She dug in her backpack, found her cell phone, and checked for coverage. It was kind of lame in Morganville, truthfully, out in the middle of the prarie, in the middle of Texas, which was about as middle of nowhere as it was possible to get unless you wanted to go to Mongolia or something.... Claire started dialing numbers. The first person told her that they'd already found somebody.... The second one sounded like a weird old guy. The third one was a weird old lady. The fourth one... well, the fourth one was just plain weird.

  Rachel Caine

  Phones, Texas, Cells

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• I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

  Steve Jobs

  Best Friend, Good Friend, Together

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

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• It's interesting - you had [George] Osborne crying at [Margaret Tatcher] funeral. She would have been the first person, she would have read these tears as being as fake as the smiles of his predecessors when they knifed her in the back.

  Irvine Welsh

  Interesting, Fake, Funeral

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When I'm writing, especially when I'm writing in first person, I don't think about the characterization, or how they are going to express themselves, I just express my own approach to these things. I think most writers can never divorce themselves from their private lives and personas; they are the ones that are writing. And the more they remove themselves from their own persona, the more, perhaps, mechanical the work becomes.

  Richard Matheson

  Divorce, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people know that I was born in St. Louis, thinking I would be very proud to announce it to the public, they gave me the news first. I was then starring in the 'Folies Bergere.'

  Josephine Baker

  Thinking, Paris, People

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• The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  War, Believe, Men

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2010). “The Basic Political Writings (Second Edition)”, p.69, Hackett Publishing

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• Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Morning, Thinking, Lunch

  Jerry Spinelli (2002). “Loser”

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• and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. it's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people......i'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you has your own soul. their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business.

  Sara Zarr

  Teacher, Smart, Heart

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• What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Past, People

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no art there. The first person who I respected immensely was Henri Cartier-Bresson. I still do.

  William Eggleston

  Art, Magazines, Firsts

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• I'm a shy, nervous person, and I don't like teaching with "terms." I didn't teach them, like, "This is first person, this is second person, this is foreshadowing," or whatever, so no one probably felt like they were learning anything. But I feel like teaching in that way reduces the concept to a term.

  Tao Lin

  Teaching, Shy, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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