Firsts Quotes - Page 284

I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton.

I'm not really a first-move kind of gal.

No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

I live or die for hip-hop and it's a beautiful form but you're a writer first and foremost.

I've always loved punk music, so it was really cool to do my first punk song.

We don't ask for opinions on our outfit all the time - but for a big of event, like the Emmys, absolutely. I actually sent my sister a picture of the [J Mendel] dress I wore to the Emmys before I chose it, and she was obsessed. She was like, "Oh, I want that." And I said, "Let me wear it first!"

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)

["A Deal with God"] was the first single off Hounds of Love. I'd put a lot of work into putting that album together and I wanted it to have every chance.

Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most of the time, it happens to work, and then you rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, and maybe it even comes back to the thing it was in the first place, but then you know for sure that it is good, and it's what you wanted to do.

Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?

I got to actually tattoo one of the members of The Misfits. The very first tattoo I ever did was this Misfits skull.

I am honored and lucky to be one of the first films funded by Gamechanger Films, a consortium of investors who finance movies directed by women.

One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should be said, or to say many things which did not need to be said. The first is the original sin of synthetic natures, the latter of analytical natures.

Promotion of health generally by improving the standard of living. From the health point of view we are in this connexion first and foremost interested in the three fundamental environmental factors: housing (including family life), nutrition, and working conditions (including human relations as well as material conditions).

I'm just being honest about the fact that a second language won't resonate with you like the first does.

The first item I designed for a real person was when I was about 10 and I made my first item of clothing for myself.

The overall concept comes first and then that informs the product, the shoot and how we communicate it. Everything comes back to the concept. It all gets thought about at the same time.

The first design I created was a circular skirt for my Barbie when I was 7.

Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard.

I’d have been dead a long time ago if not for my friends, one of whom had just jumped off the cliff after me. I’d have been a lot more appreciative if he hadn’t pushed me first." ~Cassandra Palmer

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

I'm gonna be the first hip-hop designer and because of that, I'm gonna be bigger than Walmart.

I find that if I've taken care of myself first, I can then be there fully for everyone else.

Ladies first." "Why is it men only say that when it's something horrible or dangerous?