Firsts Quotes - Page 187

A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.

The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character.

We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s why I went to poetry in the first place, that’s why I stay with it, that’s why I’ll never leave it.

Sometimes, when I'm sitting with people who have been stripped of everything and who are naked and authentic and finding themselves for the first time, I am reminded of how good people really are.

The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.

The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.

It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the embryo] in the eggs of plants.

I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the second. It is time to stop; the potion is losing its magic.

Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.

Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.

Puberty was definitely difficult for me. I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first. You read Judy Blume and you think, "This is kind of cool." But when it actually started happening to me, I was terrified.

Music is my first love.

We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.

First Theory . There is no Providence at all for anything in the Universe; all parts of the Universe, the heavens and what they contain, owe their origin to accident and chance; there exists no being that rules and governs them or provides for them. This is the theory of Epicurus.

This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.

As addictive and satisfying as my first tattoo, Wolf’s Remedy left me craving more.

Your child’s future was the first to go with budget cuts.

My approach is I put God first; I say "God willing" all the time. The only way things will change is with God. So knowing that I can't really change anything, I'm just going to satire it.

Probably fishing is my first passion.