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“My first memories of life were in rehearsal; thats why I can sleep through anything.”

Firsts I Can Memories Sleep Rehearsal

Author:Robert Glasper

“My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.”

Firsts Country Memories Grew Grew Up Bryan

Author:Luke Bryan

“My first memories of police corruption were of numerous police stops being made on my car over a relatively short period of time. It turned out that it was the same police officer each time and he was dating my ex!”

Time Memories Car Dating Police Corruption Short Officer Ex Stops

Author:Steven Magee

“My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.”

Firsts Believe Mother Father I Believe Church Memories Taken Catholic Versions Catholicism

Author:Marilyn Manson

“My first memory as a child growing up is of playing in the gardens, the mosque is really a gigantic garden, probably the biggest in all of East Jerusalem. Our house was about 100 meters from the mosque.”

Firsts Children House Memories Growing Up Growing Garden East Jerusalem Meter Mosques Children Growing Up Growing Children

Author:Rula Jebreal

“My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.”

Firsts Life Is Memories Restaurants Thumbs Capes Cape Cod Grilling

Author:Rachael Ray

“My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.”

Light Art And Life

Author:Georgia O'Keefe

“My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground ... very large white pillows.”

Firsts Light Memories White Sitting Pillow Brightness Quilts

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe

“My first memory is of the brightness of light — light all around.”

Firsts Light Memories Brightness Quilts

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“My first memory is on a ship from California back to Sydney. Water is just a natural place of home and not home.”

Firsts Home Water Natural Memories Ships California Sydney

Author:Jane Alison

“My first memory of loving music happened so early. We would always go to the beach in the summer and I would run from blanket to blanket, from family to family and just sing Lion King songs acapella.”

Firsts Running Song Memories Happened Kings Summer Beach Lions Blanket Lion King

Author:Taylor Swift

“My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'”

“My first MFA was in poetry, and it was very much part of a professional trajectory leading to life as a professor. But in my second and third years at Harvard, I realized I didn't want an academic life.”

Want Years Firsts Thirds I Realized Professors Academic Harvard Trajectory Academic Life

Author:Garth Greenwell

“My first mission is to take care of our troops. I take that mission very personally.”

Firsts Care Missions Take Care Troops Our Troops

Author:Tim Walz

“My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all.”

God Faith Jesus Belief Existence Human Jesus Christ Deny Denial Faithful Rejection Justify Justification Rejecting Faithless Reject Discrepancy Humanize

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, 'Tue es belle,' which means, 'you are pretty,' and I thought he said, 'Tu es poubelle,' which means, 'you are the trash can.' I burst into tears. He was not happy about that.”

Firsts Mean Said Jobs Tears Photographer Paris Trash Modeling Not Happy Belle Trash Cans

Author:Rachel Nichols

“My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dollsone of those.”

Firsts Jobs Girl Fronts First Time Cameras Pops Gaps Modeling Dolls Soda Barbie Barbie Dolls Soda Pop

Author:Hailee Steinfeld

“My first Mongolia trip made me look at the world differently”

World Firsts Looks Made Mongolia

Author:Matt Prior

“My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me.”

World Firsts Speak Language Strange Months Intense Disorientation

Author:Garth Greenwell

“My first motion capture game was with Sony - NBA: The Life. It was very ahead of its time. Brandon Akiaten, he was the writer and director. He had a real vision of what this game was meant to be; it was a basketball game where I was the Jerry Maguire sports agent type guy. And it was great!”

Firsts Real Guy Games Sports Vision Type Directors Basketball Agents Nba Meant To Be Capture Jerry Were Meant To Be Sony Basketball Game

Author:Nolan North

“My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.”

Firsts Moving Risk Machines Management Managers Shops Introducing Risk Management Machine Shop

Author:Taiichi Ohno

“My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.”

Firsts Mercy Good Work Diners Tender Mercies

Author:Ellen Barkin

“My first movie was a movie that had a bunch of people dying in it - the typical popcorn movie. That's where I got my start.”

People Firsts Dying Bunch Typical Popcorn People Dying

Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Kind Film Fall Broken Independent Giants Pilots Felicity Canals

Author:Will Arnett

“My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott. So he wins the award and I stand up and go, 'That's it-let's get the hell outta here.'”

Firsts Winning Acting Hell Awards Oscars Meatballs

Author:Bill Murray

“My first movie. I think I won an Oscar for this.”

Thinking Firsts Basketball Oscars

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“My first. My best friend. Lover. Betrayer. My husband. King. Heartmate. Casteel Da'Neer was my everything.”

Love Fate Fated Mates Heartmates

Author:Jennifer L. Armentrout

Source: A Crown of Ruin

“My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.”

Firsts Father Names Walks Known Middle Chosen Hills Ancestor Solitary Chapters Verses Selected

Author:Immanuel Velikovsky

“My first name ain't baby, it's Janet, Miss Jackson if you're nasty”

Ifs Firsts Names Missing Baby Nasty

Author:Janet Jackson

“My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.”

Firsts Character Names Inspired Lions Chronicles Narnia

Author:Aselin Debison

“My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Samaria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.”

Years Firsts Names Known Land Son Thousand Years Ago Israel Hills Thousand Years Jacob

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.”

Writing Firsts Bigs Age Mother Given Five Sensible Suggestions My Thoughts Notebook Whining Tablets Stop Whining

Author:Joan Didion

Source: We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction

“My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.”

People Knows Feels Firsts Mean Children Reading Novel Embarrassed Midnight

Author:Salman Rushdie

“My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.”

Writing Firsts Novel Hungry Loaded Cupboards

Author:Jan Karon

Source: The Mitford Bedside Companion: A Treasury of Favorite Mitford Moments, Author Reflections on the Bestselling Se lling Series, and More. Much More.

“My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.”

Firsts Challenges Novel

Author:Vikas Swarup

“My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.”

World Firsts Real Novel Starting Rejected Publishers Wrenches

Author:Wilbur Smith

“My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.”

Thinking Giving Firsts Book Enough Dream Half Novel Five Giving Up Six Dozen Publishers Turned Down

Author:Ian Rankin

“My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it's about how we create a coherent sense of self.”

Men Firsts Self Lost Memories Walks Levels Rooms Novel Sense Of Self

Author:Nicole Krauss

“My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.”

Men Firsts Country Past Mother Felt Novel Land Loneliness Daughter Acknowledge Continents Tigers My Past

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.”

Firsts Looks Children Left Cities Novel Late Leaving African American Murderer Hometown Serials Atlanta

Author:Tayari Jones

“My first objective is to invest, and if I have anything spare, then I spend.”

Ifs Firsts Objectives Spares

Author:Shiv Khera

“My first objective is to win against No. 1 in the world.”

World Firsts Winning Objectives

Author:Gael Monfils

“My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.”

Firsts Hard Jobs Focus Campaigns Obligation

Author:Claire McCaskill

“My first obligation is to entertain but as far as science fiction goes, it's much easier to comment on today from another time because people then aren't focused on 'did you get the details right?' It's sort of a Trojan horse approach to ideas because it's wrapped in the future, it's wrapped in action, thriller.”

People Firsts Ideas Today Action Fiction Easier Approach Horse Science Fiction Details Focused Obligation Comment Thrillers Another Time Trojans Trojan Horse

Author:Andrew Niccol

“My first occupation was to map the country.”

Firsts Country Maps Occupation

Author:John Hanning Speke

Source: Source of the Nile

“My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits.”

Want Firsts Actors Habit Offers Opera Soap Bad Habits Soap Operas

Author:Claire Danes

“My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term "junk dealer") in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman.”

Firsts Jobs Term East Officials Metals Junk Dealer Scrap Consulting Edmonton Scrap Metal

Author:Preston Manning

“My first official music video for "Who Am I." It's getting crazy traffic and a lot of hype. I got sponsored by a company called MATIX because of it.”

Firsts Company Crazy Video Officials Traffic Hype

Author:SonReal

“My first on the bucket list will be a night game at LSU. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there. Of all the things in college sports, that would be No. 1.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Would Be Night Games Sports College Lists Tigers Buckets Bucket List Lsu College Sports

Author:Beano Cook

“My first on-screen kiss was lame: Nickelodeon. But my first real-life kiss was super cute and nice, but still very awkward. It was with this hot skateboarder with dreadlocks. He was my little Rasta man.”

Men Firsts Littles Stills Real Nice Kissing Hot Screens Real Life Cute Awkward Lame Rasta Skateboarder Nickelodeon Dreadlocks

Author:Christian Serratos