Firsts Quotes - Page 286

Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back.

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

I'm a producer first, and I know music, so I can jump on any song, whether it's pop or urban, without changing me. Whatever I do, I'm gonna make it classic.

I'm never uncomfortable with anything I do. I never feel like I regret anything. I love music. All kinds of music. I'm a producer first. I feel like I can do anything and still be myself.

The first time I did stand-up was on a dare.

She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.

One of the reasons that I think the first video was successful was that it wasn't overproduced. So for the second one, it was shot on several different cameras and one of them was an HD camera, and it was so clear and so clean that it almost looked overproduced.

Is an 'idea' an advance visualization of a piece? Part of a piece? If anything - if it hasn't already evaporated - it's one of the very first things sacrificed during the actual process of making something.

It would have hurt no matter who took you the first time.

I suppose a child's first obligation is to become a stranger to his parents.

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

The first animation thing I did was the first Transformers, the one that was animated many years ago. And I had heard that Orson Welles was doing a voice on it.

Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.

I used to tour a little bit with Jim Carrey and help him out on his first Showtime special.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

Do what's right, first. Don't sit around and wait for someone else to do the right thing first.

Be it unto you, even as you believe. In God's economy, we believe first and then see.

In production, in the first couple of weeks of production, that it was more like making an internet musical.

Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins.

How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place? I read his mind. I matched his DNA. I smelled him. I also did that.

When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing.

The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.

As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

Master water first and then paint.

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.