Firsts Quotes - Page 316

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.

I would advise anyone who is at the start of a rest ritual like the Sabbath, to take it slowly and grow incrementally into it. Recognize that it will be hard at first. It's a discipline but then it is a true and deep joy.

My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.

On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?.

It was a film [The Lost World], and it's a sequel at the same time. The first shot on the first day was from the sequel to the movie they hadn't made yet. But yeah, it was a pretty amazing experience running around the jungle for that.

One of the reasons we moved to L.A. in the first place [was] so that it was no big deal that I was in show business. We decided if we move[d] to L.A., then everyone in one way or another was involved in it.

The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new . . . is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped.

I don't do well at picking first single.

I loved working with him [Justin Chadwick]. He was very smart in how he assembled the people around him and had a crew that he knew very well. He was very comfortable on the set and I never felt that I was working with a first-time filmmaker.

I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

My first introduction to fashion probably came through television: I was obsessed with Elsa Klensch, who used to cover fashion for CNN.

If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.

Who would you talk to? That is the first question for almost any startup that you need to answer. Who is my user and where am I going to find them?

I feel like I want to be known first and foremost for my work.

I never wear pants in my life. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss wearing pants. For the first time in my life, I miss my pants.

I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person.