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“Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.”

“I did a commercial when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old for... what was it called?... Cabbage Patch Kids! That was the first thing I ever did. Little bit embarrassing.”

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Author:Logan Lerman

“My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.”

Needs Firsts Night Bits Training Colour Canvas

Author:Ron Moody

“The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.”

Firsts Father Bits Talking Saws Stage Sweet First Time Dinner Flesh Charming

Author:Christopher Plummer

“When Ben Stiller and I first got married and we first had kids, I felt I needed to prove we could still do it and I could still work separately from Ben and I could still work with him. I just let go of all of that now. I said to him, 'For me, a little bit goes a long way.'”

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Author:Christine Taylor

“Horseshoes are lucky. Horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet. They should be the luckiest animals in the world. They should rule the country. They should win all their horse races, at least. 'In the fifth race today, every single horse was first equal...one horse threw a shoe came in third...the duck was ninth...and five ran.'”

World Should Firsts Country Today Winning Bits Animal Race Five Four Feet Lucky Equal Thirds Horse Shoes Ran Ducks Fifth Horseshoes

Author:Eddie Izzard

“The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same time--the sparrow, the robin, the phoebe-bird--are clad in neutral tints, gray, brown, or russet; but the bluebird brings one of the primary hues and the divinest of them all.”

Firsts Bits Enjoy Color Bird Primaries Landscape Brown Gray Cheer Robins Hue Sparrows Bluebird

Book:The birds of John Burroughs: keeping a sharp lookout

Source: The birds of John Burroughs: keeping a sharp lookout

“Not scoring one for the whole calendar year last year was a bit disappointing but I didn't really feel any pressure to get my first one as skipper,.”

Feels Years Firsts Whole Lasts Bits Pressure Last Year Disappointing Calendars Skipper

Author:Ricky Ponting

“In collage you're doing it in stages so you're not actually doing it right there. You first of all draw it on the paper, then you cut it up, then you paste it down, then you change it, then you shove it about, then you may paint bits of it over, so actually you're not making the picture there and then, you're making it through a process, so it's not so spontaneous.”

Firsts May Bits Process Cutting Stage Paper Draws Paint Spontaneous Collages

Book:Paula Rego

Source: Paula Rego

“I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.”

“Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine.”

Source: The Cyberiad

“I made my career off posing in swimsuits and doing all the swimsuit issues and posters, but I will tell you that that little bit of material on an itsy-bitsy bikini - taking that off was very nerve-racking the first time.”

Firsts Littles Made Bits Careers Issues Materials Little Bit First Time Nerves Posters Bikinis Posing Swimsuits

Author:Cindy Margolis

“Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold, silver, turquoise, and copper beneath its surface they carved up the territory like children sneaking to the fridge and slicing off a chocolate cake bit by bit: hoping at first that the loss wouldn’t be noticed but ultimately not really caring.”

Source: Jewels: A Secret History

“My dog didn't like me very much. My first dog, Dmitri, was a poodle. I used to think Dmitri was something I could play with and ride. I tried to ride a poodle. And then he bit me.”

Thinking Firsts Play Used Bits Dog Like Me My Dog Poodles

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.”

Firsts Book Feelings Bits First Time Thoughts And Feelings

Book:Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath

Source: Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath

“When I heard 'Dookie' by Green Day for the first time, it unlocked something in me, like, it's totally okay that I'm a little bit weird because these guys are a little bit weird. It made me want to pick up an instrument and do that.”

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Author:Pete Wentz

“You have to be very careful introducing the truth to the black man, who has never previously heard the truth about himself. The black brother is so brainwashed that he may reject the truth when he first hears it. You have to drop a little bit on him at a time, and wait a while to let that sink in before advancing to the next step”

Men Firsts May Littles Next Bits Waiting Black Steps Heard Brother Little Bit Careful Rejects Black People Introducing Advancing Next Steps Brainwashing Brainwashed

Author:Malcolm X

“[My first children's book] is very subliminal, let's put it that way. It even has a bit of a metaphysical little message in there [about how] we're all somehow connected and we all have a responsibility toward each other. Although you may feel alone in the world, you definitely are not.”

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Author:Gloria Estefan

“First of all I have to ask myself what am I trying to say and who am I trying to tell the story to. So if it's just 300 words going in the Independent it's very much where, what, who and when - fantastic. If there's a little bit more scope, if I've been given 1500 words by the sports editor, and I can have a little bit of fun, then I need to maybe entertain, include some different stuff.”

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Author:Steve Bunce

“There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to do, but we'll find out later. After about three or four months you come to that bit where you've got to put some plot in before it's too late, and you have to go back and start inserting plot, and, ooh, I've left out the literature, OK, lets put some in.”

Knows Writing Firsts Two Book Character Three Literature Left Bits Four Months Late Lovely Too Late Plot Left Out New Books Lovely Things Before It's Too Late

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has got the impetus, it may be clumsy, it may be repetitive, but a good editor can take that out. That first writing bit is the best thing you will do.”

Feels Writing Trying Firsts May Bits Best Things Editors Clumsy Tidy Repetitive Impetus

Author:Gerald Seymour

“It was the first car accident I had ever been in. It shakes you up a little bit.”

Firsts Littles Bits Car Little Bit Accidents Shakes Car Accident

Author:Matt Hasselbeck

“My first operating system project was to build a real-time system called RSX-11M that ran on Digital's PDP-11 16-bit series of minicomputers. ... a multitasking operating system that would run in 32 KB of memory with a hierarchical file system, application swapping, real-time scheduling, and a set of development utilities. The operating system and utilities were to run on the entire line of PDP-11 platforms, from the very small systems up through the PDP-11/70 which had memory-mapping hardware and supported up to 4 MB of memory.”

Firsts Real Running Bits Lines Memories Development Projects Series Ran Digital Application Platforms Files Utility Hardware Multitasking Operating Systems Mapping Scheduling Swapping

Author:Dave Cutler

“One of the reserves came up to me and said 'I'm finding it a bit hard, it's the first time I've ever been dropped'. So I told him to do what Nick Faldo does and work at his game. Next thing I know he's doing exactly what Faldo does, he's taken up golf.”

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Author:Ron Atkinson

“I was at first but I mean I thought at first that I wanted a little bit of that in there but the reasoning behind what they cut and what they kept really makes sense and it really played for me when I saw it yesterday, it all worked and was understood.”

Firsts Mean Littles Wanted Bits Behinds Saws Cutting Little Bit Understood Yesterday Make Sense Reasoning

Author:Brandon Routh

“EA called my agency and made us an offer and I was really enthusiastic about this, really excited to do it. I had Need for Speed: Underground already, the first one. And I'm a bit of a gamer, and definitely car enthusiast, so I've done a lot of things to my cars that people can do in this game. Everything from after-market kits to styling them, exteriorly with wheels, rims, and kits. You name it I have some fun doin' that.”

People Needs Firsts Made Done Games Names Fun Bits Can Do Car Offers Excited Speed Agency Wheels Enthusiastic Gamer Rims

Author:Brooke Burke

“Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.”

People Thinking Firsts Said Felt Bits First Time Bores Homework You Again Bores You

Author:Will Arnett

“"She (Minnie Ruth Solomon) was unusual because even though I knew her family was as poor as ours, nothing she said or did seemed touched by that. Or by prejudice. Or by anything the world said or did. It was as if she had something inside her that somehow made all that not count. I fell in love with her some the first time we ever talked, and a little bit more every time after that until I thought I couldn't love her more than I did. And when I felt that way, I asked her to marry me . . . and she said she would."”

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Author:Jesse Owens

“Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was the place where everyone wanted to go. Empires wanted to be able to say that they were the first to put a climber on top of Everest. So when a tragedy happens up on that mountain, I think it has a global resonance. Everybody's heard of Everest. Everybody knows what Everest is and what it means, and the significance.”

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Author:Richard Engel

“The political bug first bit me was Malcolm Fraser's resignation from the Gorton Government.”

Firsts Government Political Bits Bugs Resignation

Author:George Brandis

“I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit of melancholy. I had a lot of anger for my situations in life, and I would take this out on my first wife.”

Firsts Littles Self Bits Situation Creative Wife Little Bit Weakness Melancholy Looking Back Assured Meditating Situations In Life

Author:David Lynch

“I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.”

Firsts Littles Sometimes Wanted Bits Needed Curious Courageous Annoying Discovering Persistent Be Courageous

Author:Audre Lorde

“Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You must have all your skills under control from the first instant.”

Writing Firsts Stories Bits Lines Skills Starting Opening Hills Instant Skis

Book:Our Stories: A Fiction Workshop for Young Authors

Source: Our Stories: A Fiction Workshop for Young Authors

“Secretly in my heart, I believe food is a doorway to almost every dimension of our existence. ... Food never was just food. From the time a cave person first came out from under a rock, food has been a little bit of everything: who we are spiritually as well as what keeps us alive. It's a gathering place, and in the best of all worlds it's possible that when people of one country sit down to eat another culture's food it will open their minds to the culture itself. Food is a doorway to understanding, and it can be as profound or as facile as you would like it to be.”

“I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.”

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Author:Teddy Thompson

“My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.”

Firsts Humans Bits Direct Claims Global Warming Carbon Inclination Skeptical Carbon Dioxide Contributors

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“The flat tax I got on my first meeting with Margaret Thatcher, who I admired very much and who was a great admirer of Milton Friedman. I met her first when I had been prime minister I think for some months and so on, and when I told her what I am planning to do, she looked at me with these big eyes and said: "You are one brave young man." And then a little bit introduced me on the realities of the Western world on which I was not very well informed. But I didn't stop.”

“Finding your passion is like finding your career soul mate. You 'date around' a bit, trying various jobs, but one day you find something you love so much you wanna marry it and see it every morning before your first cup of coffee.”

Trying Firsts Soul Jobs Passion Bits Careers Morning One Day Findings Various Coffee Cups Mates Every Morning Soul Mate Coffee Cup Something You Love Finding Your Passion

Author:Emme

“That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: Use your eyes! Not being able to do that physical aspect of it, and having to put it all into your voice? That was a little bit of a challenge.”

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Author:Keith Coogan

“Gatekeeper was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I havent written many like that.”

Way Trying Mind Firsts Littles Ends Bits Results Written Figures Approach Little Bit Boundaries Songwriting End Results Gatekeepers

Author:Feist

“I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.”

Firsts Littles Persons Bits Chance Generations Movement Little Bit Solidarity

Author:Donald Tusk

“First thing the developer has to do is to get an assessment of the threatened species, of the ecological values of that site. At the moment, that developer lodges an application, there's usually trade-offs, negotiations, you end up with remnant bits of land. You might end up with some other offset land that the public has to run. There's no cohesive system of then making sure that we maintain and improve biodiversity values.”

Firsts Ends Moments Might Running Values Bits Land Trade Species Application Site Threatened Negotiation Ecological Assessment Biodiversity Developers Remnants Lodges Trade Offs

Author:Frank Sartor

“I've been moving a little to the music while I worked ...and then I realize I am actually dancing. It feels wonderful, though I can feel how stiff my muscles are, how rigidly I've been holding myself...Mostly I've been moving cautiously, numbly, steeled because I know, at any moment, I may be ambushed by overwhelming grief. You never know when it's coming, the word or gesture or bit of memory that dissolved you entirely...It happens every day at first, then not for a day or two, then there's a week when grief washes in every morning, every afternoon.”

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Author:Mark Doty

“I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.”

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Author:Leonard Susskind

“Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.”

Writing Trying Firsts May Stories Seems Lasts Bits Attitude Firsts And Lasts

Author:Martin McDonagh

“I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins.”

Way Feels Writing Firsts Real Stories Together Bits Pieces Tables Short Story Protective Linear Coming Together Real Work Bits And Pieces

Author:Jill McCorkle

“One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.”

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Author:Bruce H. Lipton

“When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist.”

Ifs Firsts Bits Behinds Gains Murder Starting Temptation Rhythm Get Away Distortion Guitarist Starting Out

Author:Kirk Hammett

“For me parks are good when first of all, they're not impeccable, and when solitude has appropriated them in such a way that solitude itself becomes an emblem, a defining trait for walkers, sporadic at best, who in my opinion should be irrevocably lost or absorbed in thought, and a bit confused, too, as when one walks through a space that's at once alien and familiar.”

Way Should Firsts Lost Bits Space Walks Opinion Solitude Familiar Aliens Confused Parks Traits Defining Walkers Emblems Impeccable Sporadic

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“I did my first triathlon when I was 11-years-old and it was just another new sport to try. I got better at it and decided to take it a bit more seriously.”

Trying Years Firsts Bits Sports Decided Triathlon

Author:Alistair Brownlee

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