Firsts Quotes - Page 172

But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of.

I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film.

Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.

I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.

First of all, i'm not an actor - I'm an asshole.

At first I didn't dig country.

See's candy company was the first high-quality business we ever bought.

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)

You'll never be a winner of souls unless you're first a weeper for souls.

The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology, gave it the means.

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.

The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace - the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at that moment, accrued all through time, so I accept that.

I definitely consider myself a songwriter first because that's my best attribute.

When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.

But when it comes to being loved, she's first/That's how I know The first cut is the deepest.

The first one is always the hardest," he said. "The first?" "The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after.