Firsts Quotes - Page 249

I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her... she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.

It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.

Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

The first step of a journey is always the longest.

I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.

I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.

I did my first movie,a movie called Whiffs, which very few people ever saw.

A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.

Don't talk. Kill it." That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.

Syndicate is technically the first game I worked on.

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.

We often leave the most precious personal direction of the Spirit unheard because we do not record and respond to the first promptings that come to us when the Lord chooses to direct us.

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.

I always wanted to be a writer... 'Critical Care' was my first published work. I was 34 when it came out. I was accumulating 'Critical Care' for years. I would go for a whole year and not touch it. And then I'd go back to it.

I read in the paper today the list of the most popular boys' names in Britain. The first was Jack, the second was Mohammed. That makes me feel a little bit worried.

I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.

First of all, if you're setting up a new company, you want to try to find a brand that can work on a global basis.

The risk is worth it. Mike would have been the first to say that.

One must first learn to fall if one would fly.