Firsts Quotes - Page 324

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.

You've seen the first issue and what happened in the last page. Some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why I seem to be very good at drawing it!

I first came across her [Bae Suah] when I read some elderly male critic castigating her for 'doing violence to the Korean language', which of course was catnip to me, especially as I'd recently discovered Lispector doing pretty much the same to Portuguese.

Our first-year list is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (translated by Arunava Sinha), Hwang Jung-eun (translated by Jung Yewon), and Khairani Barokka.

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

Are you prepared for the first wound?

As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.

Damn, my first cut that I showed to distributors was probably about two hours and 20 minutes, even though my contract said two hours. So, I had to lose 20 minutes. It's incredible that it just keeps happening.

My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves.

At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.

I don't like to read anything on the radio for the very first time, because I don't have any notion of a reaction. When I read it out loud, then I get an idea of that, and more of an idea of how to read.

If finding an apartment is like falling in love, buying one is like proposing on your first date and agreeing not to see each other until the wedding.

I would say acting on stage is my first love.

And, again, I'm the first one to say that I'm not going be successful at everything.

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

Donald Trump seems to think it is within his rights to trample the First Amendment, to disdain the press, to punish protesters or flag-burners, to ban ethnic categories of immigrants, and so on.

I love musicals and music driven films, and my first instinct is to tell the story. And when music is a big part of the action I can literally make the story sing!

I was into Metallica when they first started, like when Kill Em All came out.

Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.

I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.

If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.

The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.