First Person Quotes - Page 6

• The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and for that law which secures to every one his property. For the first persons who have employed themselves in cultivation, have probably worked as much land as their strength would permit, and, consequently, more than was necessary for their own nourishment.

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Law, Land, Division

  "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 2), 1766.

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• I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Mom, Dad, School

  "Character Finds A Path Out Of Her Personal Prison In 'Eileen'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. August 15, 2015.

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• In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show. When you're reading a character's thoughts or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me that's what the whole point of fiction is.

  Joe Meno

  Reading, Character, Opportunity

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Sex scenes in books are always like first person, from this male perspective and just about how awesome he is. It feels like such a fantasy.

  Joe Meno

  Sex, Book, Perspective

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I think it's the best thing I've ever done. I think it's realistic, and it's true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music.

  John Lennon

  Music, Thinking, Years

  Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.9, Verso

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• Just being the first person to bring the character to life is really fun and exciting.

  Robbie Amell

  Fun, Character, Just Being

  Source: collider.com

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• I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if I'm literally the first person to ever write a book.

  Miranda July

  Book, Writing, Always Trying

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• For a human being, to possess a consciously experienced first-person perspective means to have acquired a very specific functional profile and distinctive level of representational content in one's currently active phenomenal self-model: It has, episodically, become a dynamic inner model of a knowing self.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Mean, Self, Knowing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There has certainly been a great deal of work addressing the relationship between naturalism and the first-person perspective. Quite a number of philosophers have suggested that there are features of the first-person perspective that naturalism just cannot accommodate, whether it be qualitative character, or consciousness, or simply the ability we have to think of ourselves in a distinctively first-person manner.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Character, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In my view, philosophers have shown a great deal more respect for the first-person point of view than it deserves. There's a lot of empirical work on the various psychological mechanisms by way of which the first-person point of view is produced, and, when we understand this, I believe, we can stop romanticising and mythologising the first-person perspective.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Believe, Views, Perspective

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first time.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Believe, Views, Perspective

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If you talk about sin, you don't have to use the first person singular, but speak out of that part of yourself which knows what it means to become estranged from people you love. Speak in your own voice about things that you in your own life have in one way or another experienced.

  Frederick Buechner

  Mean, Speaks Out, Voice

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Prayer, Firsts, Conversation

  "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• When I went to do my big audition with actors for Mr. Blonde, the thing that was very interesting was the first person to actually do the audition with the song, and they kind of actually acted out the whole scene, they weren't so great. It wasn't that they were magnificent, but the song, it was the first -it was all - been in my head.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Song, Interesting, Blonde

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• I'm hardly the first person to say that you've [Jeffrey Rosen] written a book about a person who has more to say about the current state of being than almost anyone, Louis Brandeis, and yet nobody is talking about Louis Brandeis.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Book, Talking, Firsts

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The first person I ever described the film [The Neon Demon] to was Christina Hendricks [who has a cameo in the movie]. We were having dinner in LA and she asked me what I wanted to do next and I said, "I want to do a horror movie." And she goes, "What's it going to be about?" And I said, "A lot of blood and high heels."

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  High Heels, Blood, Want

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the first person in her family to get a college degree.

  Samuel Alito

  Mother, Father, College

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• Half of my family is in Los Angeles, so my cousin was the first person to play me, like, Snoop Dogg, and I would always feel like 'Omg I shouldn't be listening to this,' and my other cousin was the first to introduce me to Aaliyah, so every time I'd go to the West Coast, I'd get those West Coast vibes.

  Jillian Hervey

  Cousin, Play, Listening

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I've been a woman in a man's world now for 30 years. I was the first person to broadcast from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and that was just all suits all the time. It didn't really affect me in any way.

  Maria Bartiromo

  New York, Men, Years

  Source: wwd.com

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• There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a process involving theoreticians, fact-gatherers, protestors, martyrs for the cause, authors of first- person narratives who change the way we see and evaluate the distribution of harms and benefits.

  Catherine Wilson

  Progress, Benefits, Narrative

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I've always loved Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There's this wonderful chapter in which we get a first-person account of the monster's first impressions of the world, being in the woods and taking things in. We're seeing the world as if for the first time. That's just fascinating.

  Mordicai Gerstein

  First Impression, Monsters, World

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I grew up watching a lot of old movies, so getting to ask about making movies in the '70s and people he was friends with, like Orson Welles, Lillian Hellman and Charlie Chaplin, and hearing a first-person account was pretty incredible.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  People, Hearing, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first person I met in the business was David Heyman, who was a producer on Daytrippers and who went on to produce the highly-unsuccessful Harry Potter series.

  Greg Mottola

  Firsts, Potters, Harry Potter Series

  Source: collider.com

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• Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Perspective, Firsts, Consciousness

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It was so enticing from the beginning to be this woman who was entrenched in The Flash's world. She's not there to just tell him what a great job he's doing, she's also there to push him further and help him to be the best that he can be. She's often the first person to be a little bit skeptical of him, which is kind of nice. She really challenges him.

  Danielle Panabaker

  Jobs, Nice, Challenges

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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