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I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.
Johnny Depp
Life
Angry
Family
First
Own
Way
Born
My Own
First Child
Until
Woke
Up
Child
Frustrated
Then
Really
Should
Fortunately
Started
Appreciate
The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'
Paul Theroux
Life
Work
Love
Hope
Me
Happy
Thought
First
Changed
Born
Point
First Child
Understand
Child
Moment
Whole
Filled
Now
Ever
Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.
Harlan Coben
Time
Day
You
Heart
World
Fear
Care
Joke
First
Born
About
Charlotte
Someone
Parent
More
More Than Anything
Fact
Knew
First Child
Faint
Knowing
First Time
Real
Than
Child
May
Being
Anything
Suddenly
Ever
Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.
Anne Enright
Me
People
Speak
First
Before
Nice
Gave
Took
Secret
Able
First Child
Name
Days
Like
Naming
Safe
Well
Child
Did
What If
Suspect
Keep
Her
Second
I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at 17, and it was a mistake, but I got a beautiful child out of it.
Anna Benson
Beautiful
Mistake
Girl
First
Out
Had
First Child
Headstrong
Always
Got
Been
Child
Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
Barbara Kingsolver
Life
Saying
Phone
Mother
My Life
First
Back
Exactly
Hospital
Had
First Child
Message
Call
Got
Answering
Contract
Child
Being
Agent
Novel
Novelist
In 1988, my mother led a nationwide election campaign, wrote a bestselling book, had her first child, and became the youngest and first female prime minister of the Muslim world. All in one year! For her detractors, this wasn't good enough. She was unacceptable because she was a woman.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Good
Woman
Book
World
Mother
Election
First
Year
Enough
Unacceptable
Muslim
Muslim World
Minister
Had
Prime
Prime Minister
First Child
Wrote
She
Became
Because
Female
Led
Campaign
Child
Nationwide
Youngest
Her
I think when I was pregnant with my first child - he's about 10 or 11 now - I first noticed changes in my skin, which can make you panic a bit. I had a bit of melasma.
Cate Blanchett
You
First
Skin
Think
Changes
Panic
Bit
About
Had
He
First Child
Make
Child
Which
Pregnant
Noticed
Now
If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it.
Clyde Edgerton
Good
You
Fear
Try
Father
Too Much
Will
Good Person
First
Before
Few
Too
Apprehensive
Worry
Though
Abnormal
Catastrophe
Generations
Feel
First Child
Come
Child
Person
Did
Childbirth
Often
Just
Much
Your
Naturally
Good Father
I remember when my first child was born, and I had a script that was due, and I asked the guy I was writing it for, a guy who I'm now friends with but at the time was not friend with, 'Can I have some extra time? I had a kid born.' He's like, 'No, we need it now.'
D. B. Weiss
Time
Writing
Remember
First
Extra
Kid
Some
Born
Guy
Had
He
Remember When
First Child
Like
Due
Friend
Friends
Child
Script
Asked
Who
Now
Need
The thought that you ought not to drink while pregnant came much, much later. In fact, I had my first child in 1982, and I was still told by nurses and so forth, 'Have a glass of wine with dinner. It'll help you relax.'
Diana Gabaldon
You
Relax
Thought
Dinner
Wine
First
Nurses
Ought
Later
Drink
Fact
Had
Glass
First Child
Still
Came
Child
In Fact
While
Forth
Pregnant
Much
Help
My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.
Elvis Costello
Family
Me
You
People
First
Think
First Child
Most
Call
Calls
Irish
Child
Convention
Initial
Dad
Hours after I gave birth to my first child, my husband cradled all five pounds of our boy and said, gently, 'Hi, Sweetpea.' Not 'Buddy' or 'Little Man.' Sweetpea. The word filled me with unanticipated comfort.
Faith Salie
Me
Man
Word
Husband
First
Birth
Gave
Our
Hi
Pounds
Buddy
First Child
Hours
Comfort
Gently
Boy
Said
Five
Child
After
Little
Little Man
Filled
So, you know, Nathaniel was my first child, born when I was 40, so, uh... And then in due course, he wanted a brother, and then I thought, 'Oh, that'll be bloody lucky!' So, we ended up adopting a beautiful boy who was then five years old, from Ethiopia.
Geraldine Brooks
Beautiful
You
Old
Thought
First
Brother
Born
Adopting
He
First Child
Know
Course
Boy
Due
Years
Up
Bloody
Five
Child
Ended
Oh
Wanted
Then
Ethiopia
Who
Lucky
When I had my first child, I didn't write for a year, and I felt when I tried to start again I might actually not be able to do it anymore. I really could not do it well, and I felt out of sorts with it.
Jennifer Egan
First
Year
Out
Tried
Able
Could
Write
Had
First Child
Well
Sort
Felt
Child
Anymore
Again
Might
Really
Actually
Start
I was my parent's first child, Joanna Catherine Going, named for my great-great grandmother Catherine, and my father's maternal aunt Johanna Burke, and bearing the initials of my father's father, John Christopher, who passed away just months before I was born.
Joanna Going
Father
First
Before
Christopher
Months
John
Born
Parent
Bearing
First Child
Named
Catherine
Passed
Maternal
Aunt
Child
Going
Just
Grandmother
Who
Initial
Away
When I was pregnant, I wanted to take some time off from acting, but I still needed a creative outlet for myself. My first two books were created during my pregnancies and after giving birth to my first child.
Josie Bissett
Time
Myself
Creative
Giving
First
Birth
Books
Some
Outlet
Take
First Child
Still
Were
Off
Child
Wanted
After
Pregnancies
Pregnant
Created
Acting
Creative Outlet
Two
Needed
There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
Karen Elson
First
Record
Something
Had
Head
First Child
Like
Know
Particularly
Make
Around
Felt
Always
Child
Going
Just
Where
After
Moment
Floating
Ever
Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.
Kate Middleton
You
First
Nothing
Having
Life-Changing
First Child
Particularly
Child
Really
Your
Moment
Prepare
I was lucky enough to meet someone when I was about 46 and had my first child when I was 48, so I got started late, but I also got all that other stuff out of the way and was at a point where I could be a consistent presence at home.
Lindsey Buckingham
Home
First
Other
Enough
Late
Meet
Way
Consistent
Out
About
Someone
Point
Could
Had
Stuff
First Child
Also
Got
Child
Where
Lucky
Presence
Started
When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.
Liya Kebede
Woman
First
Young
Frames
Small
First Child
Like
Child
Africa
Places
Really
Her
When you're younger, you have a perfect plan for your life: I thought I would be engaged at 24, married at 26, have my first child at 28 and my second at 30. But as you get closer to each age, you realise it's unfeasible.
Lucy Boynton
Life
You
Age
Thought
First
Married
Would
Would-Be
Perfect
First Child
Child
Get
Closer
Realise
Plan
Younger
Engaged
Your
Each
Second
I'm Italian; I take my time. We're not really fast. We're very slow. I had my first child at 40, my second child at 45, James Bond at 50. I'm so curious as to what's next!
Monica Bellucci
Time
Slow
First
My Time
Take
Had
First Child
Italian
Very
Child
Curious
James
James Bond
Really
Next
Fast
Second
Bond
I wrote the first draft of 'Tigerman' while my wife was pregnant - needless to say, I was relaxed and casual about her well-being during this tender time - and the novel clearly has its center in that panicked parental desperation that accompanies a first child and in the admittedly comedic extremes to which it drives us.
Nick Harkaway
Time
Desperation
Wife
First
Needless
Panicked
Extremes
Relaxed
Say
Admittedly
About
Parental
Tender
Casual
Drives
Clearly
First Child
Comedic
Wrote
Well-Being
Accompanies
Child
Center
Which
While
Pregnant
Us
Novel
Her
Draft
Before I had my first child, I thought women had to decide between being a mom and a fulfilling, successful professional life. I was wrong. Very wrong.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Life
Mom
Women
Thought
First
Before
Had
Wrong
Between
First Child
Very
Child
Being
Decide
Successful
Fulfilling
Professional
Professional Life
I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.
Robert Carlyle
Love
Home
Father
First
Having
Magnet
Through
He
Taken
First Child
Always
Hit
Child
Children
Dad
Suddenly
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