First Person Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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'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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• If I'm doing some weird tick with my mouth, or not standing still or something, I'll be the first person to notice it, and then want to change that. I think it's important just to maintain trajectory, to not just use your same tricks over and over.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Thinking, Important, Use

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 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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• I wasn't allowed to watch MTV before school, but somehow I managed to, when I was five or six and Fiona Apple's video for "Criminal" came on. She was so odd and dark, and I immediately felt some kind of connection with her. She was also the first person I admired for their looks.

  Sky Ferreira

  School, Dark, Mtv

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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 don't like to rate myself; others can do that. I've spoken with a number of young people who weren't even born in 1969, when the first moon landing was made. They've witnessed the first person to fly at faster than speed of the sound without propulsion. These kids are happy to have had such a momentous event in their lifetime.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Kids, Moon, Numbers

  "Death-Defying Skydiver Felix Baumgartner 'It's Never Been about the Thrills'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 1, 2012.

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• My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.

  Hafez Nazeri

  Father, Years, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on TV.

  Samantha Bond

  Memories, Special, Stories

  "Poirot and me" by Samantha Bond, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2013.

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• I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.

  Charles Palliser

  Thinking, Narrators, Firsts

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• Good old Pete. That's me. But I find it hard to think of myself in the first person when I'm writing about The Who. So many times he has willingly sat down to write about the good old Who. Isn't he too old to masturbate?

  Pete Townshend

  Writing, Thinking, Firsts

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• A writer is obviously at his most natural and relaxed when he writes in the first person. Writing is a personal transaction between two people, conducted on paper, and the transaction will go well to the extent that it retains its humanity.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Two, People

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• There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It’s not a tool to understand myself.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Self, World

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

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• I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

  Phyllis A. Whitney

  Writing, Character, Order

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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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• The first person I ever really got starstruck over was Nicole Kidman, because I looked up to her. When I was younger, I wouldn't get parts because of how tall I was. I had the body of a 15-year-old but the face of a 12-year-old. I always looked at Nicole Kidman and thought, "Oh well, she works."

  Liana Liberato

  Years, Body, Faces

  Interview with Rachel Small, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Challenges, Trying, Sound

  "Red Bull Stratos: Felix Baumgartner interview". Red Bull Interview, www.redbull.com. September 27, 2012.

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• I actually am always a music first person

  Duncan Sheik

  Firsts, Persons

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• You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.

  Alan Brien

  Home, Winning, Sight

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• Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Thinking, Sorrow

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1996). “Selected letters, 1940-1956”, Penguin Paperbacks

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• First person to appreciate the good points of others is always special in life as he or she manifests his or her leadership through initiatives.

  Anuj

  Appreciate, Special, Firsts

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• If you want to be a leader, the first person you have to lead is yourself.

  Mike Scioscia

  Leader, Want, Firsts

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• I welcome anyone that wants to come into the WWE and try it, because, I was the type of person that was not welcome with open arms. People didn't want me to come in because I was from a Reality background. But I'm the first person that says, bring anybody in.

  The Miz

  Reality, Wwe, People

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