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“I first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did 'Guys and Dolls' at the Watford Palace theatre. After that, Ned Sherrin found me and brought me to the West End to do one of his shows. The work went from strength to strength, so I thought: 'This is where the world wants me; I'll stay.”

World Want Firsts Ends Shows Guy Found Groups Musician West London Theatre Broke Want Me Palaces Dolls Broke Up West End

Author:Clarke Peters

“I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.”

Firsts Bigs Ten News London Massive

Author:Noel Gallagher

“I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Important Media Late Motive 1960s Distortion Personal Experiences

Author:Todd Gitlin

“I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with a painting that consisted of 4,096 colour fields. Initially I was attracted by the typical Pop Art aestheticism of using standard colour-sample cards; I preferred the unartistic, tasteful and secular illustration of the different tones to the paintings of Albers, Bill, Calderara, Lohse, etc.”

Firsts Art Ideas Different Fields Painting Standards Bills Pops Cards Tone Colour Etc Secular Typical Topics Illustration Preoccupation Sample Pop Art

Author:Gerhard Richter

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.”

Firsts Saws Design Decided Architecture Magazines 1930s

Author:Kenzo Tange

“I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time, to say high Anglo-Catholic would be a real English understatement.”

Firsts Real Would Be Wanted School Decided Catholic Bizarre Preps Understatement

Author:John Hurt

“I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City) and I got onstage whenever I could. And musical theater went out the window as soon as I started doing stand-up.”

Firsts Cities Comedy New York Window Theater Musical Clubs New York City Musical Theater Comedy Clubs

Author:Sarah Silverman

“I first discovered YouTube while browsing the web, and then I found people just talking into their cameras. I never even knew it was a thing you could do.”

People Firsts Found Talking Cameras Youtube Browsing

Author:Tyler Oakley

“I first discovered YouTube while browsing the web, and then I found people just talking into their cameras. I never even knew it was a thing you could do. William Sledd was my first YouTube obsession. He was so unapologetically himself, and just had fun talking to his audience about things that interested him. I thought - if he could do it, why couldn't I?”

People Ifs Firsts Found Fun Talking Audience Cameras Obsession Youtube Had Fun Browsing

Author:Tyler Oakley

“I first emailed Tao Lin a story I wrote about the experience of losing my virginity sometime in April 2011. He didn't respond until it was later published on Thought Catalog, after which he sent me an email that said something very similar to, "I enjoyed reading this on Thought Catalog. Good job."”

Firsts Said Stories Jobs Reading Losing Enjoyed Tao Email Good Job April Virginity

Author:Marie Calloway

“I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.”

Firsts Littles Able Felt Boys Watches Records Heard Tables My Favorite Boxes Things To Do Little Boys Favorites Things

Author:Narada Michael Walden

“I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called "Seesaw." I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time, my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first actors in Hollywood to start his own production company, and I respected him because he created something he believed in.”

Firsts Shows Felt Roles Audience Successful Heard Models Theater Accomplishment Role Models Applause Sense Of Accomplishment Lancaster Seesaw

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old. ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke things. As an eight-year-old, maybe I was simply mortified by the prospect of being saddled with myself.”

Years Firsts Children Eight Motherhood Broke Loud Annoying Being Sad Sneaky

Author:Lionel Shriver

“I first found out I had cancer on my eye and lost an eye to this disease when I was 16, and I've since had cancer in my kidneys and pancreas and a host of other areas.”

Firsts Eye Found Lost Disease Areas Cancer Host Kidneys Pancreas

Author:Tom Rath

“I first got interested in music as a toddler by my childhood babysitter, Rosetta Atkins. She taught me how to sing by imitating the voices on the gospel radio station she listened to - both men and women's voices.”

Men Firsts Voice Childhood Taught Men And Women Radio Stations Imitating Toddler Radio Stations Babysitter

Author:Wendy Starland

“I first got into acting when I was about 12. I started doing speech and drama lessons. All my friends were doing it at the time and my dad encouraged it. He encouraged any extracurricular activity.”

Firsts Acting Dad Drama Lessons Activity Speech My Friends My Dad Extracurricular Activities

Author:Bella Heathcote

“I first got into fruit when I was a teenager, when my life was changing in every way. The first time I had a mango, at like 18, I was like, 'Where has this been my whole life?”

Way Firsts Whole First Time Fruit Whole Life Teenager

Author:Scott Thompson

“I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.”

Firsts Social Poet Involved Theater Height Tumult

Author:August Wilson

“I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.”

World Firsts Ends Matter Facts Problem Political Knowing Huge Involved Creating Hunger Hips Not Knowing World Hunger Political Will

Author:Jeff Bridges

“I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Book Literature Late Height Articles Popularity Seventies

Author:Anthony Holden

“I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.”

Firsts Long Stories Funny Asks Silent Ridiculous Versions Dumb Retreat Monasteries Long Story

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“I first had money for investment just at the time of the 2008 crisis and shares have been highly volatile since then. So I do have shares in my pension but I have tended to invest in specific projects that include property and private companies that have been very well researched by my advisers.”

Firsts Wells Has Beens Company Share Projects Crisis Property Investment Pension Adviser

Author:Andy Murray

“I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.”

Firsts Interest

Author:Kiki Smith

“I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.”

Firsts Musical

Author:Rupert Holmes

“I first heard "Heaven Without a Gun" when Kevin [Drew] sent it to me, and there was this kind of beauty about it. I don't live that much in the literal world, so you kind of have to see beyond the veil of what you're being shown sometimes. To me, that's such a beautiful, wonderful sentiment.”

World Firsts Kind Sometimes Beautiful Heaven Wonderful Heard Gun Sentiments Veils Literal Kevin

Author:Andy Kim

“I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi's apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good piano. I immediately realized that she had a great pop voice, in the classical sense. Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational. Everybody at Atlantic knew that we had a winner in this young lady, and she came through with great hits that will be remembered for many years to come. I consider Laura to be one of my best signings, and I am proud to have had such a great singer in my career in the record business. We miss her dearly.”

“I first heard music while in the womb. My mom tells me she played Tubular Bells with the headphones against her stomach all the time. A bit disturbing as I believe that is the theme to The Exorcist. Maybe she thought she was having Satan's baby.”

Firsts Believe I Believe Bits Heard Baby Mom My Mom Satan Theme Stomach Bells Womb Disturbing Headphones Exorcist

Author:Venetian Snares

“I first heard of [Orfeo Angelucci] from Giuseppe Conti who gave me some books by him.”

Firsts Book Heard

Author:Paul Laffoley

“I first heard of Parmenides' best-known assertion, "Whatever is, is." I laughed and blurted out, "And he's famous?" With this verbal ejaculation I revealed myself as the quintessential sophomore.”

Philosophy Humour Sophomore

Author:R. C. Sproul

“I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit.”

Firsts Bigs Heard Red Ships Shirts

Author:Dashiell Hammett

Source: Sammlung

“I first heard the banjo on the Beverly Hillbillies, and from then on I was banjo-conscious. But I didn't actually get one until my grandfather gave me one, almost by mistake. He knew I was playing a little bit of guitar. He saw a banjo at a flea market and bought it. I took it home with me and just never put it down. I was fifteen.”

Firsts Littles Home Bits Mistake Saws Heard Little Bit Conscious Guitar Grandfather Fifteen My Grandfather Fleas Banjos Flea Markets

Author:Bela Fleck

“I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in a series stands alone, when read collectively they form one big ongoing novel about the main character. Each book represents its own arc: in book one of the series we meet the character and establish a meta-goal that will carry him through further books, in book two that meta-goal is tested, in book three - you get the picture.”

Writing Firsts Two Book Ideas Character Bigs Form Three Goal Term Novel Heard Series Tested Conferences Ongoing Arcs Stand Alone Oklahoma Main Characters Tulsa

Author:Carolyn Wheat

Source: How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense

“I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews 'fiery debates.' During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.”

Years Firsts Made Together Democracy Clear Years Ago Absolutes Debate Opponents Our Time Interviews Dictator Charming Private Life Fiery Guarded Castro Time Together Our Time Together

Author:Barbara Walters

“I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.”

Knows Firsts Persons Has Beens Stories Song Opportunity Voice Pleasure Grace Player Pure Singers Reputation Combination Grit Delicacy Fiddle

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.”

Firsts Looks Hair Keys Queens Drag Fabulous Eyelashes Drag Queen

Author:Tabatha Coffey

“I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.”

Firsts Spiritual Marriage Learning Violence Concepts Non Violence Wedding Anniversary

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I first learnt to program a computer when I was nine, when my dad got a ZX80, but I think I would have had to be a particularly perspicacious child to have foreseen the iPad or Twitter!”

Thinking Firsts Children Dad Computer Program My Dad Nine Ipads Foreseen

Author:Suw Charman-Anderson

“I first met (Bob Dylan) in '65. We've had a friendship for a long time. He decided to play on a record I was making in New York. We were just friends playing together.”

Firsts Long Play Together Records New York Mets Long Time Decided Bob Dylan Just Friends Playing Together

Author:Doug Sahm

“I first met Hanson over in Japan and they gave me some great advice about the fans and they seem real down to earth. They're great.”

Firsts Real Seems Earth Fans Advice Mets Japan Down To Earth Great Advice

Author:Meredith Brooks

“I first met Jelly Roll in Chicago. He was livin' high then. You know, Jelly was a travelin' cat, sharp and good lookin' and always about he wrote this and that and the other thing - in fact, everything!”

Knows Firsts Facts Mets Cat Jazz Chicago Looking Good Jelly

Author:Zutty Singleton

“I first met Jimmy Page in London in 1961, and he was listening to James Burton, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup with Gene Vincent, as was I ... these were the rock and roll guys who really sparked our interest in the guitar, and later we delved into other things and went different directions ... during my time with Eric Clapton, we talked about what we'd listened to early on, and he was a huge fan of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis”

Firsts Different Guy Interest Music Fans Rocks Huge Listening Mets Pages Guitar London My Time Genes Rock And Roll Cliffs Jimmy Jerry Eric Chuck Berries Different Directions Scotty

Author:Albert Lee

“I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.”

Thinking Years Firsts Kind Long Two Sometimes Young Grows Growing Up Path Week Mets Band Husband Long Time Glad My Husband Two Weeks Very Cool Time To Grow Up

Author:Natascha McElhone

“I first met my wife in the tunnel of love. She was digging it at the time.”

Firsts Humor Funny Wife Mets My Wife Tunnels Digging

Author:Chic Murray

“I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.”

Firsts Book Remember Known Mets Fifteen

Author:Willa Cather

“I first met Nelson Mandela when I was in my late 20s, in 1993. I was helping facilitate an African National Congress (ANC) workshop to plan its media strategy. I went down to meet him for the first time and you know me I got stupid... I just choked. I said, "Hello Madiba, it's a real honour to meet you," and I couldn't get another word out.”

Knows Firsts Said Real Helping Plans Media Stupid Mets Late First Time Strategy Congress Honour Know Me Hello Workshops Nelson Facilitate Madiba

Author:Kumi Naidoo

“I first met Taylor Swift at an awards show, which is a pretty easy place to suss out who is cool. Right off the bat I was like, This is a person I want to know. Just because she's a very famous person doesn't mean she doesn't exist outside of that space. She's wonderful and special and treats me really nicely and we have a great, mature relationship. She's on a short list of people like that for me.”

People Knows Want Firsts Mean Persons Shows Easy Space Wonderful Special Mets Treats Lists Mature Awards Bats Really Nice Award Shows Very Famous

Author:Jack Antonoff

“I first met the brand [Didier Dubot] when I went to an event for them on Top of The Standard. It was about three years ago. It was the first time I heard about them and then that's where I met them.”

Years Firsts Three Heard Events Mets Standards First Time Years Ago Brands Three Years

Author:Julia Restoin Roitfeld

“I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, Concerning the Nature of Things.”

Firsts Children Book School Subjects Mets Pages Rays Crystals

Author:Dorothy Hodgkin

Source: The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

“I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.”

People Thinking Firsts Humans Sometimes Night Sound Voice Water Crowds Woods Human Voice Sound Of Water

Author:Freya Stark

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“I first of all have a problem with the term 'avant-garde'. Because it is a military term, it means the guard that runs before the rest of the soldiers. And if I want to see myself presented in military terms, I don't want to be part of that. I want to be one of the deserters. I want to be in the woods, maybe.”

Ifs Want Firsts Mean Problem Running Term Military Soldier Woods Avant Garde

Author:Blixa Bargeld

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