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“My first solo was in church when I was five.”

“My first son didn't really take a bottle, and I didn't like giving bottles.”

“My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.”

Firsts Song Conscious Yeah Dublin Smog

Author:Damien Dempsey

“My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out and it was with a novelty song. Now, all of my recording obligations have been taken care of. I made 14 albums for Warner Brothers. Five for United Artist before that.”

Firsts Has Beens Made Care Artist Song United Taken Five Brother Albums Obligation Reach Out Novelty Warner Brothers Hula

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“My first songs, I would just record them on this little tape recorder, and then I didn't start recording songs I really liked until my friend gave me a 4-track (recorder) and that's when my ideas really started coming together.”

Together Song

Author:Matt Costa

“My first sparring session with him saw him bullying me around the ring, so I thought fuck this, and when he came back in close, I threw the boxing code of conduct out of the window and hit him with a cracking right hand in to the balls! That sapped the energy out of him and that was the end of that. In the end, I could take anything he threw at me and then I’d come back with mine, which he didn’t like and people would comment on how much I’d ‘come on’.”

Boxing Sparring Richy Horsley

Author:Stephen Richards

Source: Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley

“My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.”

Firsts Father Talking Opposites Bachelors

Author:Linda Evans

“My first stage was couture. Boom. Couture. It has changed because women have evolved. Back in the day there were princesses. Today, there are still princesses, but she no longer rides around with horses and a carriage. She parties, she goes on vacation, she goes on boats. She wants to be dynamic. I understood this and I kept going. We do prêt-à-porter, men's, and couture.”

Today Party Changed Horse Boat Vacation Princess

Author:Riccardo Tisci

“My first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregnant. I suppose that when I didn't go on to become the next Gloria Allred, she was justified in counting me a failure. And I suppose that until now, I was justified in thinking that I wasn't one.”

Self Esteem Failure

Author:Jodi Picoult

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.”

Firsts Cutting Instruments Boxes Wire Cigar Banjos Peg

Author:Carl Sandburg

“My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me of big teddy bears dancing around.”

Firsts Bigs Remember Strong Parent Memories Bears Dancing Musical Teddy Quartets Rehearsing Teddy Bear Villa

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“My first struggle thought me that there is no such thing as luck, but the second made me believe you certainly need it sometimes.”

Believe Struggle Luck Thought

Author:M.F. Moonzajer

Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

“My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.”

Firsts Film Form House Animal Students Couple Scene Borrowed Orientation

Author:Ivan Reitman

“My first surprise was to discover that the military people there thought, behaved, and acted like philosophers—far more so than the philosophers we will see splitting hairs in their weekly colloquium in Part Three. They thought out of the box, like traders, except much better and without fear of introspection.”

Military Traders Philosophers

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“My first tape piece was made with that Sears Roebuck recorder. I modified sound using cardboard tubes with a microphone in the end to filter the sound. I had a wooden apple box with a Piezo [contact] mic and little objects that I could amplify on the box. I used the bathtub for reverberation.”

Firsts Littles Made Ends Used Sound Pieces Objects Boxes Contact Apples Tape Tubes Filters Microphones Recorders Mics Amplify Bathtubs Sears Reverberation

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“My first tattoo is a full-on Sailor Jerry situation on my hip - it's a swallow with big spread wings. When I got it I was 20 on St. Mark's Place in New York; I just walked in in a frenzy. It's still there 17 years later and it's not a terrible thing to look at.”

Years Firsts Looks Stills Bigs Situation New York Terrible Mark Wings Spread Hips Tattoo Terrible Things Sailor Jerry Frenzy

Author:Maria Dahvana Headley

“My first teacher was Steven Spielberg. I worked on Amazing Stories. That was my first job, as a writer and as a story editor. Watching him and his command of the tools of filmmaking, and his admiration for writing and the story itself, was the greatest lesson I ever had.”

Writing Firsts Stories Jobs Teacher Lessons Tools Command Admiration Editors Filmmaking

Author:Mick Garris

“My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.”

Years Firsts Stills Helping Shows Lines Acting Four Advice Tvs Ten Tough Hollywood Coaching Tv Shows Movie Sets

Author:Michael Pena

“My first thought about acting, growing up here in New York, was theater, and I feel like I need to force myself to go get my ass kicked in a rehearsal room and do one of those plays at some point.”

Needs Feels Firsts Play Force Rooms Acting Growing Up Growing New York Theater Ass Rehearsal

Author:Paul Dano

“My first thought in moments of darkness and doubt is, "Who can I call? Who can I share this with?" Connection and sharing saves me every time.”

Firsts Moments Darkness Doubt Share Connections Save Me

Author:Jane Park

“My first thought in the morning is, thank you for another day”

Inspiration Mindfulness Prosperity Inspirational Quote Thankfulness Inspirational Living Thankful Quotes

Author:Karon Waddell

“My first thought in the morning is thanksgiving.”

Morning Thought Wise Sayings Thanksgiving Thanks Be To God

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“My first thought is always of light.”

Firsts Light Photography

Author:Galen Rowell

“My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.”

Firsts Stills Havens Cheating Cigarette Cheated

Author:Frederik Pohl

“My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.”

Firsts Challenges Air Sky Understood Mystical Cloudy Moody Irish Writers Cloudy Day Great Irish

Author:Christopher Meloni

“My first thought when I met you," he said, "I thought you had the bluest eyes I'd ever seen." The world spun and Elliot was the only still thing anchoring me and keeping me from falling off. I swallowed, my fingers still wrapped around his bicep and our eyes locked together. "My turn," he said, his voice low, "What's your favorite color?" "Green," I said. It was a miracle I could even speak. "What's yours?" His eyes didn't leave mine. "Blue.”

Love Romance Blue Eyes

Author:NorthByNorth

Source: Saving Elliot

“My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.”

People Love Should Firsts Support Positive And Love

Author:Princess Diana

“My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.”

Firsts Three Finished Shooting Editing Unthinkable

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“My first time acting for camera really was for Steven Spielberg in War Horse. I was trained in theater and I was actually working in theater at the time. I had a small role with the Royal Shakespeare Company, which is a huge prestigious theater company back in England. I honestly thought that was as good as it got.”

Firsts War Acting Company Roles Huge First Time Horse England Theater Cameras Honestly Royal Prestigious Small Roles War Horse

Author:Jeremy Irvine

“My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.”

Firsts Sex Rich First Time Invention Teenager Cynical Cynicism Handful Inventor Junk Masturbation Funny Relationship Sloppy Funny Sex

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

Source: Choke: A Novel

“My first time on stage was the class "graduation" at the Comedy Store. It was awesome. Everything got huge laughs and I just thought I knew how to do comedy.”

Firsts Class Laughing Comedy Stage Huge First Time Stores

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.”

Firsts Shows School Black Team Members High School First Time Program Theater Boxes Performing Divided Tickets Basements Recycling Black Boxes

Author:Joe Mande

“My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.”

Want Firsts Done Dies Games Seeing Television Pops Video Terrified

Author:Kate Bush

“My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of "Les Miserables" in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting with the guy from Psycho (1960). My parents were teachers, and it was hard for them to relate to that world.”

World Firsts Hard Guy Parent Acting Teacher Tvs Versions France Relate Psycho

Author:Dexter Fletcher

“My first trip to Canada has been great!”

Firsts Has Beens Canada

Author:Cody Simpson

“My first trip was the Appalachian Trail, and I was able to finish it despite having no skills and no experience when I started. In comparison, I can think of only a few individuals in the world who have the potential do complete the Alaska-Yukon Expedition.”

Thinking World Firsts I Can Able Individual Skills Despite Comparison Trails Alaska Expeditions Appalachian Trail Yukon

Author:Andrew Skurka

“My first TV crush was Elroy Jetson, because he was so cute. And I wanted to play with Astro on his automatic dog-walker thing.”

Firsts Play Wanted Dog Tvs Cute Crush Walkers

Author:Alyson Hannigan

“My first twenty-nine years of life I stayed local. By age thirty-one I was living on the opposite side the world!”

World Age Living Hawaii Hawaiian Local Stayed Opposite Side Thirty One Twenty Nine

Author:Steven Magee

“My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.”

Firsts Two Book Sleep Okay Print Derivatives Early Work

Author:Mary Oliver

“My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.”

Firsts Two Book Publishers

Author:Mario Benedetti

“My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.”

Firsts Two Book Young Reading Justice Brother Judging Letters Facility Juvenile Citing Young Brother Juvenile Justice

Author:Hill Harper

“My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.”

Way Firsts Two Character Stories Past Novel Research My Way

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.”

Firsts Two Reason Wanted Simple Records

Author:Norah Jones

“My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected”

Firsts Two Records Quiet Moon Various Expected Reactions Subtle Energetic Phantoms

Author:Duncan Sheik

“My first two years in the CFL, all I thought of was getting back to the NFL - it was like 'I'll put my time in up here and go back.' Then I went and signed a nice contract in Calgary and was like, 'Hey, I can make a living up here, this is great football, and I'm having a blast.”

Years Firsts I Can Two Nice Football Hey Nfl My Time Two Years Contracts Blast Great Football Calgary

Author:Doug Flutie

“My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me.”

Thinking Firsts Stories Special Cinderella Story

Author:Chris Evert

“My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, because we knew nothing about how to respond to it appropriately, and we didn't really understand about how the virus is passed. There was a lot of misconception about that.”

Firsts Understanding Generations Heard Aids 80s Viruses Hiv My Generation Misconception

Author:Annie Lennox

“My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.”

Way Firsts Psychology Fields Economics Experiments Undertakings

Author:Simon Newcomb

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“My first vegetable garden was in a hard-packed dirt driveway in Boulder, Colorado. I was living in a basement apartment there, having jumped at the chance to come out West with a friend in his Volkswagen Bug, fleeing college and inner-city Philadelphia. I was twenty, hungry for experience, and fully intending to be a ski bum in my new life. But it didn’t turn out that way.”

Gardening Philadelphia Boulder Volkswagon Bug

Author:Jane Shellenberger

Source: Organic Gardener's Companion: Growing Vegetables in the West

“My first victory as a citizen, I stood by the law against the injustice”

Law Victory Injustice Quotes

Author:Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

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