Firsts Quotes - Page 348

At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

I acted before I sang. And I did The Cosby Show, and things like that. But the music kind of came first. And it was a part of my essence. So I knew that I would evolve into this world.

I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.

I bought a camera with my first ever paycheck.

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

As a network, they're not the network that usually picks things up after the first episode airs. They definitely have a methodology that they follow. But they're very happy with the show [Into the Badlands]and they're very excited with how it's performed.

We were very, very lucky being in the first round of Y Combinator because that alone generated a lot of interest. A lot of readers of Paul Graham were just excited to see what was going to come up. And we were the first ones to launch.

The first step, and the thing that everyone has to do right on the Internet is make something people want.

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

He hadn't lost Grace. Because she'd never been his to lose in the first place.

You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation.

Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.

Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

He who shoots first laughs last.

In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.

If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.

Trust me-that toilet and me were best friends for the first few days I was here.

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.

Director and producers have to take all the risks they can. We developed this film with the possibility to create departing from a blank page and to discover things as the process went along and as we understood the things that at first we couldn't understand in words.

With the movies, you do your preparation on your own. It's much more internalized and ... the actual performance is a kind of, just trying to capture one moment at a time, for the first time.

You know, I have a kid on my own, and I know how busy it is, the first weeks and the first month.