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My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

Quotes by Mary Oliver

In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do.

Quotes by Mary Quant

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

Quotes by Mary MacLane

On my first trip to New York in the 1980s, the first place I wanted to visit was the Plaza Hotel, home to Kay Thompson's Eloise.

Quotes by Mary Kay Andrews

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

Quotes by Mary Leakey

In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.

Quotes by Mary Lou Retton

I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

Quotes by Mary Hunter Austin

My first album is playful.

Quotes by Mary J. Blige

I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.

Quotes by Mary Cheney

I was terrified. My first week, walking around in a teeny bikini, I kept crossing my arms over my chest because I was afraid I was going to fall out of the top of the suit. And I didn't know anything about technique or lighting.

Quotes by Mary Crosby

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward

Lyft is focused on the customer - the driver - as GM is. I've talked many times about our goal being, 'How we can put the customer at the center of what we do so we earn customers for life?' It's a very common goal of putting the customer first.

Quotes by Mary Barra

One of my first jobs was as a recipe tester for a PR agency. One week, the editor of 'Housewife' magazine called my boss and asked me to write a column - the cookery editor had gone away on a press trip. I was terrified.

Quotes by Mary Berry

In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths.

Quotes by Mary Antin

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

Quotes by Mary Antin

Well, the first band was at nine, and I was on the road when I was 12 with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers.

Quotes by Marty Stuart

When I was 5 years old, I got my first record. It was 'Flatt & Scruggs' Greatest Hits.' The second was 'The Fabulous Johnny Cash.'

Quotes by Marty Stuart

When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.

Quotes by Marv Levy

The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramophone's inventor: Alexander Graham Bell.

Quotes by Marvin Ammori

I have tried to help build a framework that recaptures the First Amendment as a principle to empower all Americans, politically and personally, through access to plentiful, diverse communications spaces.

Quotes by Marvin Ammori

If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.

Quotes by Martin Winterkorn

First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.

Quotes by Martin Yan

Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss video artist I learned about pretty early on. She's one of the first contemporary artists I knew about and was really drawn to.

Quotes by Martine Syms

We didn't wait for the renewable heat incentives to come into place; we wanted to be first to provide consumers with alternative ways to heat their homes.

Quotes by Martin Naughton

Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.

Quotes by Martin Landau

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Quotes by Martin Luther

I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA.

Quotes by Martin Fry

In diagnosis think of the easy first.

Quotes by Martin H. Fischer

I always intended to move back to New York when I was first there.

Quotes by Martin Henderson

The first cellular systems didn't become commercially available until 1983. Most of the phones before then were in fact car phones.

Quotes by Martin Cooper

One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on these shores by the Puritan John Winthrop, via the Gospel according to Saint Matthew.

Quotes by Martin Filler

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.

Quotes by Martin Fleischmann

It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence, and the second one came with the onset of early menopause.

Quotes by Marti Noxon

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.'

Quotes by Martin Amis

I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.

Quotes by Martha McSally

At first I imagined I'd write detective novels, because I loved 'Nancy Drew.'

Quotes by Martha Nussbaum

There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing.

Quotes by Martha Smith

I always say Coach Trestman reminds me of the first Willy Wonka. Not the Johnny Depp one.

Quotes by Martellus Bennett

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Quotes by Martha Graham

When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it.

Quotes by Martha Grimes

This majority is working for America, and one of those ways is we have tremendously low unemployment. This economy has created millions of new jobs, and we are expecting growth this first quarter of somewhere higher than 4 percent.

Quotes by Marsha Blackburn

While the budget resolution is a nonbinding blueprint, it is, nevertheless, an important guideline for Congress. Once the President's proposed budget is received by Congress on the first Monday of February, Congress generally goes to work on appropriating the funds required.

Quotes by Marsha Blackburn

When I first started making the videos, I didn't tell anyone about it.

Quotes by Marques Brownlee

I had an Ultimate jersey on in my first video. I get a lot of comments about it, because a lot of tech people don't know anything about Ultimate.

Quotes by Marques Brownlee

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Quotes by Marquis de Sade

When I get on a plane these days, I go first class.

Quotes by Marla Gibbs

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

Quotes by Mark Zuckerberg

The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.

Quotes by Mark-Paul Gosselaar

For me, family always comes first; I would do anything to protect them.

Quotes by Mark Wahlberg

When I first did 'Empire,' it was a severe break from everything I'd written up to that point, which is all very continuity-driven, super-heroic, and ethics and morals-infused. 'Empire' was a chance to break away from that.

Quotes by Mark Waid

My first inkling that I might have a yen for directing came when I realized I enjoyed creating plays for my various sports teams more than I actually liked playing the game.

Quotes by Mark Waters

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Quotes by Mark Strand

When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the focal points of the campaign, and, in fact, my opponent attacked me for it.

Quotes by Mark Takano

Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.

Quotes by Mark Roberts

The American people must be assured that no federal agency can trample their First Amendment rights.

Quotes by Mark Meadows

We're doing a lot of inspection on the leading edge of our wing on 114 and 121, the first two flights.

Quotes by Mark Kelly

The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights.

Quotes by Mark Kelly

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

Quotes by Mark Kennedy

I translated an Emile Zola book, 'The Belly of Paris,' because I didn't find an existing translation that captured his sense of humor. Humor is the first victim of translation.

Quotes by Mark Kurlansky

To be a great game, one of the teams has to score first.

Quotes by Mark Lawrenson

If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.

Quotes by Mark Hoppus

It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?

Quotes by Mark Hyman

The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked.

Quotes by Mark Gatiss

I got my first show at Blum & Poe because Paul McCarthy postponed his show, and they came to my studio and asked me if I could put together a show in two weeks.

Quotes by Mark Grotjahn

I was Google's first woman engineer.

Quotes by Marissa Mayer

Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me.

Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa

First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl.

Quotes by Marion Barry

The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.

Quotes by Marion Cotillard

I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.

Quotes by Marion Jones

This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S.

Quotes by Mario Monti

The first obligation is to the French people and establish solidarity among our own citizens.

Quotes by Marine Le Pen

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

Quotes by Mario Benedetti

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

Quotes by Marilyn Hacker

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

Quotes by Marilyn Hacker

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

Quotes by Marilyn vos Savant

My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying.

Quotes by Marilynne Robinson

I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first made it. The biggest thing I learnt was that you have to be pro-active. You can't be scared.

Quotes by Marina and the Diamonds

I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate was Greek, so I guess I kind of had that Greek destiny.

Quotes by Marie-Chantal Claire

When the first American steps on the red dust of Mars, it's going to be because of computer scientists.

Quotes by Marillyn Hewson

The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living.

Quotes by Marie Curie

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

Quotes by Marianne Faithfull

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Quotes by Marianne Williamson

My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.

Quotes by Maria Semple

I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova.

Quotes by Maria Sharapova

We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off.

Quotes by Maria Shriver

I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.

Quotes by Maria Mitchell

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

Quotes by Marguerite Young

At first I didn't know if I wanted to do TV again. I can get bored quickly.

Quotes by Maria Bello

First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.

Quotes by Maria Callas

I started to think of 'Hidden Figures' as the first part of a mid-century African-American trilogy.

Quotes by Margot Lee Shetterly

One of my first commercials was for a Samsung cellphone. It was made as a mini-movie.

Quotes by Margarita Levieva

My ambitions are less important than my well-being. My children come first.

Quotes by Margherita Missoni

I worked in videogames for 16 years before writing my first book in 2009.

Quotes by Margaret Stohl

Self-preservation is the first responsibility.

Quotes by Margaret Anderson

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

Quotes by Margaret Cavendish

I still miss my first car. Not a glamorous ride, but I must've put 60,000 miles in road trips on that thing.

Quotes by Marcus Sakey

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Quotes by Marcel Proust

Of course my first goal is to save the balls. This is obviously the most important thing as a goalkeeper.

Quotes by Marc-Andre ter Stegen

When I first began playing football, I was a striker.

Quotes by Marc-Andre ter Stegen

For me, the 'Three Stoppages' was a first gesture liberating me from the past.

Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

The first 'Half-Life' movie treatment pitched to us climaxed with a tearful reunion between enslaved Vortigaunts and their Vortiwives and children. The last one I saw had Black Mesa invaded by a cavalry unit, just so as to feature a scene of bullsquids tearing into armored horses.

Quotes by Marc Laidlaw

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