Quotes about First Person

I actually am always a music first person. Votes: 4

I'm the first person in my family to play poker. Votes: 4

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle. Votes: 4

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person. Votes: 4

The first person who contacted us was the assistant to President Eisenhower... in the White House. Votes: 4

I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference. Votes: 4

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me. Votes: 4

I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before. Votes: 4

The first person you lead is you. Votes: 3

I actually am always a music first person Votes: 3

The first person you have to resurrect is yourself Votes: 3

Much of my work has been done in first person. Votes: 3

The first person I click on can't be the right choice. Votes: 3

I was the first person to go to university from my family. Votes: 3

Elvis was the first person in music that I really identified with. Votes: 3

I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight. Votes: 3

No great president in the USA has been primarily a me-first person. Votes: 3

After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela. Votes: 3

Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view. Votes: 3

Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets. Votes: 3

Coming in second place just means you were the first person to lose.... Votes: 3

The first person I ever cared deeply and sincerely about was - myself. Votes: 3

I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay? Votes: 3

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet. Votes: 3

In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case. Votes: 3

Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972. Votes: 3

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books. Votes: 3

Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time. Votes: 3

The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that. Votes: 3

Marrying the first person who offers you a decent position in society. Love can wait. Votes: 3

Congratulations to Sachin Tendulkar for becoming the first person ever to score 50 test hundreds, absolute superstar Votes: 3

The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg. Votes: 3

Just because I write in the first person doesn't mean that all my songs are autobiographical. Votes: 3

Just being the first person to bring the character to life is really fun and exciting. Votes: 3

Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads. Votes: 3

If you want to be a leader, the first person you have to lead is yourself. Votes: 3

I was Patient Zero. The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet. Votes: 3

Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to ever sarcastically say hello. Hellooo, I invented the telephone! Votes: 3

The first person a customer speaks with has the greatest impact on that customer's impression of Safeway. Votes: 3

nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular ... Votes: 3

I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person. Votes: 3

If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta. Votes: 3

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative. Votes: 3

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time. Votes: 3

We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. Votes: 3

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example. Votes: 3

I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that. Votes: 3

I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance! Votes: 3

I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother. Votes: 3

If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. Votes: 3

You are the first person who you should treat with humility. Respect yourself and let it overflow to others. Votes: 3

I have often wondered who was the first person to realize that eating an artichoke was a good idea. Votes: 3

Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison. Votes: 3

I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss. Votes: 3

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was. Votes: 3

My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago. Votes: 3

If I ever thought I wasn't the right guy for the job, I'd be the first person to fire myself. Votes: 3

Houllier did what he had to do "“ I'm not the first person to be treated like a disposable commodity Votes: 3

If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across. Votes: 3

I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders. Votes: 3

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. Votes: 3

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing. Votes: 3

The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. Votes: 3

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you. Votes: 3

I trust my mom with anything. If I have a problem, my mom is always the first person I go to. Votes: 3

Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up. Votes: 3

When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see. Votes: 3

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer. Votes: 3

I trust my mum with anything. If I have a problem, my mum is always the first person I go to. Votes: 3

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call. Votes: 3

Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009. Votes: 3

Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it" Votes: 3

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt. Votes: 3

Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian, Votes: 3

you might not be the first person l kissed, but you will be the last' Jamie to Claire in Outlander (not word perfect) Votes: 3

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with... Votes: 3

People go through life and make personal decisions and sometimes they don't work out. I won't be the first person to be divorced. Votes: 3

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. Votes: 3

I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask. Votes: 3

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. Votes: 3

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

For me, that's always been one of the great charms of the first person: we gain access to a very personal, private kind of music. Votes: 3

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last. Votes: 3

I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history. Votes: 3

As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them. Votes: 3

You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!' Votes: 3

It's interesting most people don't really know what a producer does and really the producer is the very first person on-site and the very last one to leave. Votes: 3

Fashion icon to me is somebody who has, the first person who struck you and introduced you to the world of fashion, and that person is my mom. Votes: 3

There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter that lived 80 or 90 million years ago. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I'm certainly not the first person to be in a relationship with a younger man, but somehow I was plucked out as a bit of a poster girl. Votes: 3

On the way I thought about how millions of people drowned so that the first person could learn to swim. The amazing thing is that people still drown. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America. Votes: 3

back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the first person who turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry. Votes: 3

I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this - so why can't I do it? Votes: 3

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop. Votes: 3

I also found it funny to think about blackness as the second person. That was just sort of funny. Not the first person, but the second person, the other person. Votes: 3

In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place. Votes: 3

In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place Votes: 3

I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator. Votes: 3

When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! Votes: 3

Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence. Votes: 3

I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic. Votes: 3

Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to college everyone puts so much hope into you. Votes: 3

The first person I learned I could make happy with laughter was my mother, whom I idolize. It was a powerful thing to realize. I knew I had found my life's work. Votes: 3

The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed. Votes: 3

I'm a little bit of a geek - I have to be the first person to get new things when they come out. I always want to buy and try new gadgets. Votes: 3

I never had a strategy about my life. I didn't have enough information to have a strategy. I'm the first person in my family to go to college. I had no family mentors. Votes: 3

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place. Votes: 3

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short. Votes: 3

Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their thoughts and experience eternity and access the higher planes of mind. Votes: 3

The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, there are these tests that have been written by multiple people. Votes: 3

A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to see if there was still any steam underneath. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. Votes: 3

If a friend starts behaving silly because you bother him so much, don't worry, you're not the first person, he has got a sting in his stomach, an hunger that causes an epidemic hatred. Votes: 3

If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me. Votes: 3

I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director. Votes: 3

Read at a time when everything feels intense, seminal, and like you're the first person to discover it, freshman year of college, Carol Gilligan's 'In a Different Voice' made my hair stand on end with awe. Votes: 3

When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids. Votes: 3

I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming - the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and Internet play, game mods, and so on. Votes: 3

I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when you begin to do your work, you're climbing into somebody else's skin. Votes: 3

I was the first person in the world to audition for 'The Hobbit'. The casting director told me that when I went in. That's a lot of pressure, isn't it? The first person in the world. Votes: 3

I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well. Votes: 3

I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could. Votes: 3

I think the first person who kind of broke my mind was probably Jimi Hendrix. Listening to him opened my mind up to where you can take music and how far you can take rock n' roll. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 T.V. Votes: 3

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free. Votes: 3

I'm not the first person to sing about God, Jesus, faith [or] any of that, and I won't be the last. And it won't be the last for me, either. If you don't like it, change the channel. Votes: 3

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you. Votes: 3

I claimed to be the first person to adjust a vertebra by hand, using the spinous and transverse processes and levers. I developed the art known as adjusting, and formulated the science of chiropractic, and developed its philosophy. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person. Votes: 3

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. Votes: 3

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. Votes: 3

I'm the one who's dating the craft-service guy instead of the producer. Plus, if a producer is going to date a hot young thing, I'm probably not the first person on their list - the weird, quirky, funny girl. Votes: 3

A lot of times people come up to me saying 'oh my god you can see,' and they think they're the first person to think of that joke, but they're probably the 10,000th one to say that joke. Votes: 3

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. Votes: 3

I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova. Votes: 3

The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length of time it takes to write a book, the publisher and the readers can and will come later. Votes: 3

The first person who really showed me the ugly spirit was Brion Gysin. "The ugly spirit shot Joan because . . ." and I never found out why. This Brion wrote out on a piece of paper in a sort of trance state. Votes: 3

You - I don't think anybody ever forgets the first person they fell in love with. That's something that everybody remembers, and it doesn't matter what the time period is or where; I mean, those feelings are always the same. Votes: 3

Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around open source, gave back to the community through education, and inspired me to explore photography. Votes: 3

The truce is that. You forgive all of these moments because you're constantly waiting for the moment when you will be seen. As an equal. As just another person. As another first person. There's a letting go that comes with it. Votes: 3

Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented. Votes: 3

My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard. Votes: 3

I'm a part-time student, and I plan to finish my degree. I think there are a lot of part-time students with jobs on the side or stressful careers. I'm certainly not the first person to be working while I'm in university. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Walking the runway with Alexander McQueen, I really had to dig deep. You're with Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. I was the first person out on the runway, but I thought, 'I have done the Olympics, I can do this.' Votes: 3

Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular. Votes: 3

That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost. Votes: 3

I was there at the birth of my son and had the extraordinary feeling when I first saw him of thinking this was the first person I would willingly die for. I had the same strong feelings when my daughter was born. Votes: 3

The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Even when people didn't think I was the real champion, I got called out anyway. So now when you get a good win the first person people think of is me. I guess they thought it would be easy, but nothing comes easy. Votes: 3

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college. Votes: 3

The basic principle, and the principles of chiropractic which have been developed from it are not new. They are as old as the vertebrae... I am not the first person to replace subluxated vertebra, for this art has been practiced for thousands of years. Votes: 3

I was born into a middle class family in New Jersey. My dad came home from serving in the Army after having lost his father, worked in the Breyers ice cream plant in Newark, New Jersey. Was the first person to graduate from college. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Partly why I love to operate is that I love to watch an actor within a shot. When you watch a shot, and you know that everything's come together, I feel I'm the first person watching it. I always get pleasure out of that. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends' opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never love anyone quite that way again. Votes: 3

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure. Votes: 3

There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along.... Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

The trouble with being an activist is you end up like Eve and you get kicked out of the Garden of Eden. You know, Eve was the first person who thought for herself. And she still gets a bad rap. I named my daughter after her. Votes: 3

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work? Votes: 3

When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right, and everyone else is wrong." That's a very unpleasant position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked. Votes: 3

First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to share her world quite intimately. So it suits a story focused on one character's personal journey. However, first person shuts out insights into other characters. Votes: 3

Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin. Votes: 3

In 2007, I sold my first book, 'Grimspace.' It says it's SF on the spine. I believe it to be SF, though it's certainly written differently. I write in first person, present tense, and the protagonist is a woman with a woman's thoughts, feelings, and sexual desires. Votes: 3

I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in the world, it's absolutely incredible. My great-great grandfather was the guy who printed the first edition, so he's the first person to ever put 'Dracula' on the written page. Votes: 3

One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Jerry Orbach was the first person to take me to the Friars Club. It's a beautiful building, and you walk into these halls of comedic history and meet these old cats who could tell you a million stories about how things went down in New York City. Votes: 3

When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world. Votes: 3

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?' Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet. Votes: 3

But lots of people do parody now. The whole mash-up thing that's so prevalent now was starting in the 80's when I was starting to think about this stuff. I certainly wasn't the first person to do it but now... comics mash-ups, all kinds of mash-ups are everywhere. Votes: 3

Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation. Votes: 3

Combat duty is strenuous and physically demanding, and I'm not the first person to notice that men and women are built differently. And while many will argue that women will only be allowed into combat arms units under the same requirements as their male counterparts, count me as skeptical. Votes: 3

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy. Votes: 3

I'm not a first-place person. Votes: 2

My first wife was a theater person. Votes: 2

First of all, I'm no better than the next person. Votes: 2

The person lives twice who lives the first life well. Votes: 2

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever. Votes: 2

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first. Votes: 2

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin. Votes: 2

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature. Votes: 2

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband. Votes: 2

The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met. Votes: 2

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first. Votes: 2

In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons. Votes: 2

I have an interest in making first-person games, Votes: 0

Friendship is thinking of the other person first. Votes: 0

I'm a first-past-the-post person, and always have been. Votes: 0

Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story. Votes: 0

To be a great leader, first become a great person. Votes: 0

The person lives twice who lives the first life well Votes: 0

You never marry the person you first see 'Casablanca' with. Votes: 0

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular. Votes: 0

The most confident person in any transaction ALWAYS introduces themselves first. Votes: 0

To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent. Votes: 0

I'm more of a fan of combat games than first-person shooters. Votes: 0

For peace to take hold, one person must first stop fighting. Votes: 0

First person who says that to my face, I'll punch you! Votes: 0

Those who seek a better life must first become a better person. Votes: 0

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin. Votes: 0

I'm very much a family person, and that's always my first priority. Votes: 0

Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end. Votes: 0

I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first. Votes: 0

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts. Votes: 0

I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports. Votes: 0

The first trillionaire in the world will be the person who mines asteroids. Votes: 0

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective. Votes: 0

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing. Votes: 0

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself. Votes: 0

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia. Votes: 0

For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted. Votes: 0

There's nothing like the first horseback ride to make a person feel better off. Votes: 0

The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry. Votes: 0

If you want to win the heart of a person, first win the perception Votes: 0

The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously. Votes: 0

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance. Votes: 0

To understand how to be healthy, a person must first comprehend sickness, disease and death. Votes: 0

Sometimes... the first step to forgiveness is realizing that the other person... is batshit crazy. Votes: 0

I was always more interested in being a woman first and an advertising person second. Votes: 0

If you want to become successful, then first become the person who can be successful. Votes: 0

If you want to be the best salesperson, first you must be the best person. Votes: 0

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. Votes: 0

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person. Votes: 0

A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person. Votes: 0

To transform this world into a better place to live, make yourself a better person first. Votes: 0

The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems. Votes: 0

DARE TO COMPAREIf you're without imperfection, hurl the first insult at a challenged person Kamil Ali Votes: 0

The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last. Votes: 0

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person. Votes: 0

I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid. Votes: 0

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. Votes: 0

Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is. Votes: 0

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable. Votes: 0

A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said. Votes: 0

To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves. Votes: 0

If you want a recipe for relationship failure, just wait for the other person to change first. Votes: 0

The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day. Votes: 0

The person who takes the first step in a conflict toward the other, those are brave people. Votes: 0

First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation. Votes: 0

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.' Votes: 0

First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person. Votes: 0

Sickness is the first warning that we have made a wrong judgement. A healthy person is never unhappy. Votes: 0

One person's success is another's first step, only you can rate your achievements and find peace within yourself. Votes: 0

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband. Votes: 0

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation. Votes: 0

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself Votes: 0

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. Votes: 0

Flying first class means sitting next to a better class of person I don't want to talk to. Votes: 0

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful. Votes: 0

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. Votes: 0

To talk to his children about God, a person needs to first talk to God with the impossible. Votes: 0

I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays. Votes: 0

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. Votes: 0

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie. Votes: 0

Turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. Votes: 0

I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts! Votes: 0

But first be a person who needs people. People who need people are the luckiest people in the world. Votes: 0

The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world. Votes: 0

You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place. Votes: 0

I always think the best way to dress is when the person notices you first and the dress after. Votes: 0

... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist. Votes: 0

She's the nicest person I know." Zila chewed on her lower lip. "Well, the second nicest. Avry's the first. Votes: 0

The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person. Votes: 0

When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person. Votes: 0

I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with. Votes: 0

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress. Votes: 0

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement. Votes: 0

When I first read the script, I realized that Katie would have to be played as a rather down-to-earth person. Votes: 0

When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing. Votes: 0

When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible. Votes: 0

People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn't take them long to realise I'm just an average person. Votes: 0

You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter. Votes: 0

From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge. Votes: 0

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. Votes: 0

You have to look beyond race because as a human being you have to experience the person from the inside first Votes: 0

When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible. Votes: 0

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live. Votes: 0

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. Votes: 0

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go. Votes: 0

That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person. Votes: 0

While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional. Votes: 0

It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart. Votes: 0

Be friendly first. Service starts with a friendly person with a friendly smile, who offers friendly words first. How friendly are you? Votes: 0

If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger. Votes: 0

Each person change themselves first, and then let your change act as a leader for others to make the changes they need. Votes: 0

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are. Votes: 0

Don't ever hit a person first, but if anybody ever puts their hands on you, you hit them right between the eyes. Votes: 0

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That's why there have been many average men and only one Edison. Votes: 0

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy. Votes: 0

Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two. Votes: 0

The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment. Votes: 0

My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing break. Votes: 0

If a person calls themself 'autistic' and you tell them they have to use 'person first language'... you're not putting the person first. Votes: 0

First-person narrators can't die, so as long as we keep telling the story of our own lives we're safe. Ha bloody fucking Ha. Votes: 0

The average person in Hollywood just assumes that if you're on a hit TV show, then that's the first thing you've ever done. Votes: 0

Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person. Votes: 0

When you see a person for the first time, you're not seeing him, but seeing yourself and your whole life in his mirror. Votes: 0

When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get. Votes: 0

To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not. Votes: 0

I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person - I felt proud. Votes: 0

Finding love is a two-part process. The first part is to find the right person. The second part is to be the right person. Votes: 0

Sometimes I'll read an audition and I'll get a very strong first impression about who the person is, and I usually go with it. Votes: 0

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip. Votes: 0

I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message. Votes: 0

Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service. Votes: 0

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature. Votes: 0

The first item I designed for a real person was when I was about 10 and I made my first item of clothing for myself. Votes: 0

People have two sides, and a person first becomes appealing when you discover both of those sides - and worlds work exactly the same way. Votes: 0

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am a very approachable and personable person, and I always put myself last. Whether it's family or friends, I always think about them first. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased. Votes: 0

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person. Votes: 0

An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium. Votes: 0

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions. Votes: 0

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak. Votes: 0

What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work. Votes: 0

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person. Votes: 0

Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person. Votes: 0

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees. Votes: 0

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Votes: 0

Senator [Bernie] Sanders is the only person who I think would characterize me, a woman running to be the first woman president, as exemplifying the establishment. Votes: 0

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident. Votes: 0

I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted. Votes: 0

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility. Votes: 0

Putting your well-being first - like putting your oxygen mask on before you help the person next to you - that really benefits all your relationships. Votes: 0

I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the [U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] as the person I was born to be. Votes: 0

In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything. Votes: 0

I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are. Votes: 0

Pre-heat the oven? Really? If I was the sort of person who planned ahead, I wouldn't be eating this Totino's Party Pizza in the first place. Votes: 0

To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose. Votes: 0

I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan technique. Votes: 0

We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good. Votes: 0

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself. Votes: 0

My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact. Votes: 0

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person. Votes: 0

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line. Votes: 0

A person's first duty, a young person's at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value. Votes: 0

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity. Votes: 0

You'll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step. Votes: 0

The strongest factor in conditioning is sex, in the sense that the first thing that a person is really taught is whether they are male or female. Votes: 0

A player who conjugates a verb in the first-person singular cannot be part of the squad. He has to conjugate the verb in the first-person plural. We. Votes: 0

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model. Votes: 0

First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now. Votes: 0

An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. This is what it means to be educated. Votes: 0

Create a friendly atmosphere on the inside and outside. Live Friendly. Be a friendly person on the inside. Have the attitude it takes to be smiling internally first. Votes: 0

So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress. Votes: 0

I always start a book thinking that it can be something other than first-person present, and I always come back to first-person present. It's just the easiest way. Votes: 0

Great directors turn in mediocre work and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know. Votes: 0

The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner. Votes: 0

A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end. Votes: 0

Another benefit is that the more I blog, the more I maintain and develop a first-person voice, which translates into a much greater ease with writing personal essays. Votes: 0

An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means to be educated. Votes: 0

She is amazingly creative, bringing so much more to a song than just a singer. She is a first-class musician and the most gracious person in the world. Votes: 0

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent. Votes: 0

laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears ... Votes: 0

To a normal person, $10 million will seem like enough. But anyone who thinks that's enough is not the type that can acquire that much in the first place. Votes: 0

To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value. Votes: 0

Lauren Kirshner creates a first-person narrator you never stop rooting for. . . . [Where We Have to Go] highlights Kirshner as a new novelist to watch. A very strong, original debut. Votes: 0

I like the first-person games, but I like the two-person element in terms of playing basketball games with my friends. That's a good time; we have tournaments and things. Votes: 0

It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal. Votes: 0

When I get into relationships, I'm an all-or-nothing person. I just completely give in to the person. It becomes my first priority in life; family, friends and career follow. Votes: 0

One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe. Votes: 0

It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal. Votes: 0

If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love God, they will be able to love their neighbor, too. Votes: 0

The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it. Votes: 0

When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different. Votes: 0

The call to adventure is the point in a person's life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not. Votes: 0

One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands. Votes: 0

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world. Votes: 0

The Christmas gift of peace was the uncoiling of the links of a triple chain that first unites a person with God, then with himself, then with his neighbor. Votes: 0

I think that devices like Glass are going to do a terrific job of capturing your first-person perspective. And that's what people first think of when they think of GoPro. Votes: 0

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader. Votes: 0

Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers of all ages. Votes: 0

I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged. Votes: 0

To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths. Votes: 0

Gentlemanly, principled, helpful behaviour by older men vis-a-vis young women goes unnoticed, but it deserves real moral credit, and we could use more first-person testimony from the beneficiaries and practitioners about that too. Votes: 0

In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of True Detective that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Harts voices. Votes: 0

In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of 'True Detective' that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices. Votes: 0

A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.' Votes: 0

If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You'd like to avoid it just being other people's memories and interpretations. Votes: 0