“Labels are going to tie you down with a 360 deal, they take percentages of literally every endeavor you're tied to. It's a lot of stipulations and constraints placed on you. What makes it worse is that, in terms of distributing budgets, labels aren't even giving the same amount as they used to. It totally defeats the purpose. My advice would be to get it out there on your own first which will lead you to calling the shots.” GivingFirstsWould BeUsedPurposeTermDealsAdviceAmountCallingShotsDefeatLabelsBudgetsTiesEndeavorTiedPercentagesConstraintsStipulationsCalling The Shots Author:Ashanti
“A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.” FirstsActorsAmountDirectorsPreparedGood Actors Author:William H. Macy
“I remember when I first got married, there was a certain amount of internet traffic on the subject of, "Who is this beard who is allegedly married to Ira Glass? Obviously, he's gay."” FirstsRememberCertainSubjectsAmountInternetGayMarriedGlassesTrafficRemember WhenBeardIra Author:Ira Glass
“In your short stay in Atlanta, I'm sure you saw that there was great competition between Martin's [Luther King] father and John Wesley Dobbs in terms of family status. You know, the bragging about whose child got a master's degree first and whose child, maybe, was the first Ph.D. Out of a background like that, the business of becoming a chairman of an important movement or a movement that symbolizes a certain amount of prestige is something you don't resist easily.” KnowsFirstsChildrenImportantCertainFatherTermSawsMovementMastersAmountKingsBecomingDegreesCompetitionBackgroundsLutherChairmanPrestigeBraggingAtlanta Author:Ella Baker
“So the first things that you see when you look up something on Google could be dependent on the amount of advertising or something else. Since it is a profit making institution, it is going to reflect the interests and concerns of those who fund it, which is advertisers.” FirstsLooksInterestAmountConcernInstitutionsProfitAdvertisingLook UpDependentFundGoogleAdvertisers Author:Noam Chomsky
“When you first start off, I know singers who have only been in the business just a short amount of time, and they've already written their autobiography. I didn't want to write it too soon. I wanted to live a while and write about things that I felt were important to me - growing up in Wales, and the characters that I met and listened to.” KnowsWantWritingFirstsImportantCharacterWantedFeltGrowing UpGrowingWrittenAmountMetsSingersAutobiographyWales Author:Tom Jones
“The reality is, the way we've used phones and the amount that we've used phones has changed radically in the past five years. When phones were first marketed in the 1990s, it cost, for car phones, $3000 to buy a phone and the average person did not use it that much. They were very, very expensive.” WayYearsFirstsPersonsUseRealityPastUsedFiveCarChangedAmountCostAveragePhonesFive YearsExpensiveAverage Person Author:Devra Davis
“I've never done a lead role in a film this big [like Doctor Strange], in a franchise this big. One of the reasons was, I wanted to know what the toy box was like. And it's just insane, the amount of facility that everyone gets, but the amount of artistry and craft that's brought to every aspect of filmmaking. I mean, you go to your first costume fitting and it's one of thirty. It's a myriad, but it's for a reason. There are so many incredible costumes in this.” KnowsFirstsMeanReasonDoneBigsWantedFilmRolesStrangeAmountAspectDoctorsIncrediblesBoxesInsaneCraftsThirtyToysFilmmakingCostumesFacilityFittingArtistry Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“The first art in caves were really psychedelic experiences, and the reason that they were is because the tribal encyclopedia, the amount of information that people needed to know in order to move to a new way of life, suddenly increased over that period of time.” PeopleKnowsWayFirstsArtReasonMovingOrderInformationAmountNeededPeriodsNew WaysCavesPsychedelicEncyclopediaPsychedelic ExperienceNew Way Of Life Author:Howard Rheingold
“On the issue past of independence of Germany, after the time of National Socialism, Germany has been given an enormous amount of help particularly and also from the United States of America. A fact that we were able to enjoy German unification is due first and foremost to the help of the United States of America.” FirstsHas BeensStatesFactsHelpingAbleAmericaPastGivenEnjoyUnitedUnited StatesIssuesAmountIndependenceDuesEnormousSocialismGermanyUnited States Of AmericaUnification Author:Angela Merkel
“[ The Nightingale ]ended up being a huge undertaking - a daunting amount of research on a subject that many people know intimately, a country I had not yet been to when I first started planning the book, an entire war.” PeopleKnowsFirstsBookWarCountrySubjectsHugeAmountResearchPlanningUndertakingsNightingales Author:Megan Chance