Firsts Quotes - Page 247

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.

The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.

My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it.

The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

I'm off everything apart from the fags and the coffee. I don't know if it's worked. It works up until you take your first drink.

I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

Every time I start the next movie, it's as exciting as the first time.

It was a little company that released [Bad Influence], it was really ahead of its time... I'm really proud of it. And it's Curtis Hanson. He'd directed a small movie before that, but it was his first directorial work that really worked.

When I had my Comedy Central roast, David [Spade] was my first choice to be roastmaster, because I adore him. He's funny as hell, and nobody is meaner.

The first word about you is that you received this life.

You have to first believe in what you are, in what you can do, in what you say before you can make anybody believe in you.

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.

I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.

I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I'm a serious Turow fan.

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

I've always dabbled. I've always nearly written a book, I've always tried painting, I've always tried to make something out of ideas, really. It was never a plan. I never thought, "Right. First I'll get famous, and then I'll do a book.

I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty.

I can't stand it. I can't stand someone being embarrassed. I don't know why. If someone slips over and the first thing they do is look around, I pretend I haven't seen it.

The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.

When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.

It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans.

There is one thing that motivates me. It is the global glory of God. I am first and foremost a missionary. I am an evangelist and a missionary.