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When Grant Hill came back to Orlando after having all of his surgeries, I was the first person to call him and congratulate him for making it back. It seemed like nobody cared about what I was dealing with.
Penny Hardaway
First
Back
About
Seemed
Having
Nobody
Like
Hill
Call
Him
Dealing
First-Person
Making
Came
His
Person
After
Congratulate
Grant
Orlando
Cared
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.
Pete Hegseth
Me
Women
Will
Men
Men And Women
First
Demanding
Duty
Only
Physically
Argue
Count
Allowed
Counterparts
Combat
Arms
First-Person
Built
Male
Women Are
Person
Same
While
Skeptical
Notice
Requirements
Many
Differently
Units
Strenuous
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.
Philip Zimbardo
Alone
Family
Me
School
College
First
Complete
Ghetto
High
Bronx
High School
First-Person
Go
South
South Bronx
Up
Very
Person
Childhood
Grew
Psychologist
Social
Poor
Origin
Prepared
Early
Early Childhood
Sicilian
The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.
Philippe Falardeau
Me
First
Spielberg
Someone
Steven
Steven Spielberg
Make
First-Person
Person
Behind
Realize
Film
Everyone has a different interpretation of characters we know and love from Shakespeare, from 'Miller'. There's specific things about them that are written that are kind of the fingerprints of the first person who played that role, and so I like to think of it as a road map.
Phillipa Soo
Love
First
Interpretation
Think
Everyone
Characters
Kind
About
Fingerprints
Shakespeare
Written
Road
Road Map
Like
Know
First-Person
Role
Person
Different
Them
Who
Map
Specific
Miller
Things
Played
I was the first person in the family to be an actor.
Pilou Asbaek
Family
First
First-Person
Person
Actor
The first person on the BBC that played me was Huw Stephens. I was sat around my laptop with my girlfriend and my family, and it was super-exciting. It felt weird, and it sounded weirder, but it was great.
Rex Orange County
Great
Family
Me
First
Girlfriend
Weird
Weirder
Around
Felt
First-Person
Person
Laptop
Sat
Played
When anyone talks about lucha libre and that style of wrestling, the first person they think of is Mil Mascaras. The other man the true wrestling fan will think of is El Santo. These were the names that came to me when I was growing up.
Rey Mysterio
Me
Man
Will
First
Style
Think
Other
About
Wrestling
True
Names
Talks
First-Person
Came
Were
Up
Person
Anyone
Fan
Growing
Growing Up
I am definitely not the first person with a sports program to have a Hollywood star come on, but I don't know of any that does it as a staple of the program, which is something we are trying to do.
Rich Eisen
Sports
First
Definitely
Something
Come
Know
Does
First-Person
Am
Person
Trying
Any
Which
Hollywood
Hollywood Star
Staple
Star
Program
I trust my mum with anything. If I have a problem, my mum is always the first person I go to.
Richard Fleeshman
Trust
Problem
First
First-Person
Always
Go
Person
Anything
Mum
Madam C.J. Walker was the first person to devise and scale a business model that addressed the hair care and beauty needs of women of color while also challenging the myopic ideals of the beauty industry at that time.
Richelieu Dennis
Time
Needs
Business
Women
Care
Hair
First
Beauty
Scale
Madam
Myopic
Color
Ideals
Devise
Also
Industry
First-Person
Walker
Model
Person
While
Business Model
Challenging
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.
Robert Powell
Son
Strong
Daughter
First
Feeling
Feelings
Thinking
Birth
Extraordinary
Saw
Willingly
Would
Strong Feelings
Born
Had
Him
First-Person
Person
Die
Same
From when I was a young boy, I wanted to be the first person to direct a movie at 100.
Ron Howard
First
Young
Be The First
Direct
Boy
First-Person
Person
Movie
Wanted
Writing in the first person, you immediately open yourself up to the idea that there's a connection between you and the narrator.
Sally Rooney
You
Yourself
Writing
First
Immediately
Open
Idea
Between
First-Person
Narrator
Up
Person
Connection
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.
Samantha Bond
Me
Memories
First
Television
Had
Put
Because
First-Person
Been
Pat
Person
Personal
Estate
Stories
Holds
Agatha Christie
Producer
Special
Mum
Her
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.
Siri Hustvedt
Perspective
Organ
Changes
Relation
Only
Environment
First-Person
Dynamic
Plastic
Lived
I had a teacher when I was in college, and he was the first person who liked my photos and said, 'The way you look at girls is your own way of seeing.' He was the first person who really gave me the confidence to try something.
Sofia Coppola
Teacher
Me
You
Confidence
Try
College
Girl
First
Own
Gave
Way
Photos
Seeing
Something
Had
He
Liked
Look
First-Person
Said
Person
Really
Your
Who
I don't know for a fact, but I feel fairly certain that the first person who described a movie as 'character driven' had to have been a producer or studio executive.
Steve Erickson
Character
First
Fact
Driven
Had
Studio
Feel
Know
Executive
Fairly
First-Person
Been
Person
Movie
Producer
Certain
Who
The first person a customer speaks with has the greatest impact on that customer's impression of Safeway.
Steven Burd
First
Impact
Greatest
First-Person
Impression
Person
Customer
Speaks
I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.
Sue Monk Kidd
Love
Character
Writing
First
Intimacy
Inside
Dropped
First-Person
Affinity
Person
Being
I was the first person in NYU Medical Center's history to be diagnosed with NMDAR encephalitis.
Susannah Cahalan
History
First
Diagnosed
First-Person
Person
Center
NYU
Medical
When it comes to the form the narrative will take, whether first person, third person, or Aunt Grace's cat, I usually find that the story tells me which voice it prefers, and that often changes as I go along. And in the end it really doesn't matter as long as the author can rig those voices all in harness to pull the same load.
Thomas Steinbeck
Me
Grace
Matter
Will
Long
First
Changes
Harness
Those
Tells
Find
Voice
Voices
Take
Cat
Along
Narrative
First-Person
Go
Aunt
End
Author
Person
Same
Often
Form
In The End
Story
Whether
Which
Really
Rig
Load
Third
Pull
I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.
Tom Bodett
Guy
Only
Voice
Impersonator
First-Person
Got
His
Essays
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. She'd swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great.
Tom Ford
Beautiful
Great
Character
Old
Car
Thought
Hair
First
Big
Incredibly
Our
Our Lives
Cartoon
Cartoon Character
Had
Like
Smelled
Looked
She
Boxes
First-Person
Stylish
Always
Big Cars
Years
Big Hair
Person
Grandmother
Who
Lives
Presents
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.
Tracy Kidder
You
First
Way
Prominent
Tells
Know
First-Person
Very
Person
Where
Place
Landmark
Basic
I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
Vivienne Westwood
Punk
First
Hairstyle
Punk Rock
First-Person
Rock
Person
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