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As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.
John C. Maxwell
Me
Change
Try
Leader
First
Lead
First-Person
Person
Should
Need
I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
Jack Welch
You
World
Problems
Leader
First
Big
Guy
Never
Smartest
Deal
First-Person
Got
Real
Big Deal
Hired
Person
Real Problems
Going
Room
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.
Ambrose Bierce
Failure
Man
Enemies
First
Ranks
Would
Bear
He
Like
Arms
Himself
Makes
First-Person
His
Person
Being
Against
Certain
Convinced
Doubts
Who
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.
Karl Marlantes
War
Great
First
Down
Great American
Cold
Back
Would
Would-Be
About
Write
Feet
Wrote
Sheer
First-Person
Said
Got
Wet
Person
American
Psychotherapy
Gonna
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Pages
Sat
Novel
Socks
There are certain things in 'Twilight'... As much as I'm proud of that movie and I do like it, I feel like maybe I brought too much of myself to the character. I feel like I really know Bella now. But most readers feel like they know Bella because it's a first-person narrative.
Kristen Stewart
Myself
Character
Too Much
Too
Brought
Feel
Like
Know
Most
Readers
Because
Narrative
First-Person
Proud
Maybe
Movie
Much
Really
Certain
Certain Things
Now
Twilight
Things
Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.
Robert Smith
Life
Good
Me
You
Made
Guitarist
Free
First
Before
Think
Nine
Seemed
Entirely
Adult
Had
He
Footballer
Come
Singer
First-Person
Dominated
Person
Wanted
Might
Across
Your
Who
Hendrix
Thing
In the age of social media and dating apps, so many people are able to hide behind their Instagram page or their Raya page or Facebook. And it's like, 'Let's set something up! I want to meet face-to-face.' And 'Take Me' was about, 'Are you going to take me out? Do I have to be the first person to make the move?'
AJ Michalka
Me
You
Age
Facebook
People
Hide
Social Media
First
Meet
Apps
Out
Able
Be The First
Face-To-Face
About
Something
Dating
Instagram
Take
Like
Make
First-Person
Up
Person
Going
Move
Behind
So Many People
Want
Social
Page
Many
Media
Set
Estee Lauder was my grandmother. She was an iconic and powerful woman, but to us, she was just Estee. She was the first person to teach me how important it is to be passionate and proud of what you do, and always talked about 'balance.'
Aerin Lauder
Me
You
Balance
Woman
First
Important
About
Powerful
She
Talked
First-Person
Always
Proud
How
Passionate
Person
Just
Iconic
Us
Grandmother
Teach
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.
Alan Dershowitz
Life
Family
College
My Life
First
Strategy
Enough
About
Mentors
Never
Had
First-Person
Go
Person
Information
Later on, when I signed with Sony, we wanted to re-release 'Fade' as 'Faded' with a brand new mix and with vocals by Iselin Solheim. I think Iselin was the first person who sung demo vocals for 'Faded.' And it worked out great! The way I got in touch with Iselin was through a guy that I work with in the studio.
Alan Walker
Work
Great
First
Think
Later
Way
Signed
Out
Sung
Touch
Vocals
Guy
Through
Fade
Studio
Faded
Sony
New
Demo
First-Person
Got
Mix
Brand
Brand New
Person
Wanted
Worked
Who
I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.
Alice McDermott
First
Worry
Telling
Students
Make
First-Person
Always
Person
Difference
Much
Third
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
Aminatta Forna
Political
First
Tell
Through
Narrative
First-Person
Historical
Person
Personal
Story
Grand
I'm still wearing Doc Martens. I'm sure that you can have a baby and wear Doc Martens, but... Maybe I'll be the first person to give birth in Doc Martens!
Andrea Riseborough
You
First
Baby
Birth
Wear
Wearing
Be The First
Give
Sure
First-Person
Still
Person
Maybe
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.
Ann Aguirre
Thoughts
Woman
Book
First
Feelings
Believe
Sold
Says
Though
Sexual
Spine
Write
Written
Tense
Protagonist
First-Person
Person
Certainly
Differently
Present
Present Tense
Desires
Sometimes in a big theatre, you have about, probably, six yards sometimes between you and the first person in the audience. It's almost like you've got to jump across a little pond to get there and then keep moving.
Annaleigh Ashford
You
Theatre
Sometimes
First
Big
Keep Moving
About
Almost
Between
Like
Audience
First-Person
Got
Yards
Jump
Person
Get
Six
Pond
Little
Moving
Then
Across
There And Then
Keep
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
Anne Rice
Success
Book
Power
Way
Write
Know
Greatest
First-Person
How
Artistic
Chance
If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
Ben Affleck
First
Would
Would-Be
Be The First
Hotel
Hotel Room
Dead
Call
First-Person
Woke
Matt
Up
Person
Room
Ever
The first person who contacted us was the assistant to President Eisenhower... in the White House.
Betty Hill
First
White
White House
President
House
First-Person
Person
Eisenhower
Us
Who
Assistant
Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.
Brent Runyon
Work
First
Books
More
Write
Outside
First-Person
Person
Trying
Plan
Now
The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.
Cam
Music
Time
Best
Myself
Me
You
Yourself
People
Writing
Guitar
Somebody
First
Singing
Other
Else
See
Something
Could
Songs
Like
Until
First Time
Maker
First-Person
Doing
Were
Encouraging
Friends
Person
Who
Playing
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'
Charles Palliser
Word
Every
Think
Compromised
Unreliable
First-Person
Narrator
Prefer
Should
Novel
The first person that I ever heard sing a song I wrote was Jason Derulo. I was in the studio when he was doing it, and I mean, I've heard that guy's voice my whole life. When he was singing words I wrote, I started kind of choking up, but I tried to be all manly and puff my chest up and be all, 'Yeah, it's not a big deal.'
Charlie Puth
Life
Song
Words
First
Singing
Big
Manly
Kind
Tried
Guy
Voice
He
Studio
Sing
Wrote
Deal
First-Person
Yeah
Doing
Big Deal
Chest
Heard
Up
Person
Mean
Jason
Choking
Whole
Ever
Started
Puff
A lot of people say that I took the first shot for Bitcoin. The first person to walk through the door always gets shot, and then everyone else can come through.
Charlie Shrem
People
Bitcoin
Walk
First
Else
Took
Everyone
Everyone Else
Say
People Say
Through
Come
First-Person
Always
Lot
Person
Gets
Door
Then
Shot
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.
Chris Christie
Home
Family
Class
Army
Plant
Father
College
First
Lost
Class Family
Born
Having
New
First-Person
New Jersey
Came
His
Person
Graduate
Middle
Middle Class
After
Newark
Ice
Ice Cream
Cream
Worked
Dad
Jersey
Serving
I'm the first person in my family to play poker.
Chris Moneymaker
Family
First
Poker
First-Person
Person
Play
I was the first person in my family to play baseball.
Christian Yelich
Family
First
First-Person
Person
Baseball
Play
Play Baseball
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