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The first time I ever heard the blues, my parents had a stack of records that they weren't using anymore. I found them when I was ten; I didn't know what it was. But I found Lightnin' Hopkins.

~Ato Essandoh

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The first time I was onstage, I felt like the audience was breathing with me. I don't know if I was good or not; I just knew I was having a ball, and for the first time, I felt I belonged somewhere.

~Ato Essandoh

Topics: Audience Ball Belonged Breathing Felt First First Time Good Having Just Knew Know Like Me Onstage Somewhere Time

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My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there.

~Atticus Shaffer

Topics: Acting Also Audition Booked Cartoon Could Cute First Get Good Had Just Kind Looking Maybe Might Mom She Should Something Theater Thought Tried Voice Voiceover Were While I Tried

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Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.

~Atul Gawande

Topics: Alive Day First He Hero Heroic Just Lewis Longer Me Medical Oliver Other Read Remains Thomas Who Writers

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Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

~Atul Gawande

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There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not. Universal health-care coverage belongs to the first category: you can pick one of several possible solutions, pass a bill, and (allowing for some tinkering around the edges) it will happen.

~Atul Gawande

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Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?

~Auberon Herbert

Topics: Abstract Directly Drives Existence First Force Forces Mental Moral Morality Opposed Out Physical Practically Secondly See You

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I think the first CD I actually went into a store to pick out myself was a Good Charlotte album... I went through a tomboy punk phase in the fourth grade.

~Aubrey Peeples

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My first role was in the George Gershwin musical 'Crazy for You' at the Orlando Repertory Theatre when I was 11 - I grew up in Florida - and I wasn't old enough to be in it, but they let me anyway. I was just this little shrimp in a leotard.

~Aubrey Peeples

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At this very early stage in my career, I want people to experience the music first and let it drive their imagination and their experiences.

~Aubrie Sellers

Topics: Career Drive Early Experience Experiences First Imagination Music People Stage Very Want

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