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“I felt a certain modicum of success because I had been paid well to be an actor for the first time in my life, but I felt like I had done adolescent work on the show, and stepping into the New York theater arena was the first time I felt like I'd come into my own. I felt like I was proving myself in a gladiatorial arena.”

Firsts Wells Done Shows Certain Actors Felt My Own New York Prove First Time Paid Theater Arena

Author:Chris Carmack

“I miss the beginning stages when you didn't know what to expect. When everything was fresh, just experiencing it for the first time. That's something you can't buy with all the money in the world, that feeling.”

Knows World Firsts Feelings Stage Missing First Time

Author:Kurupt

“As Pope Francis visits the United States for the very first time, it is our privilege as Catholics and Americans to welcome His Holiness to our country. Here, he will find people who are uniquely free.”

People Firsts Country States United United States First Time Catholic Privilege Welcome Our Country Holiness Pope

Author:Marco Rubio

“Seahawks beat Cardinals, 58-0. If Patriots beat Texans, 58-0, it will be first time in NFL history there were two 58-0 games in same week.”

Ifs Firsts Two Funny Games Comedy Week Beats First Time Nfl Patriot Cardinals Texan

Author:Norman Chad

“I can't say L'Etranger influenced me to write, but for the first time I considered the possibility of telling a story that resembled my own experiences in my own voice.”

Writing Firsts I Can Stories Voice My Own Possibility First Time

Author:Sefi Atta

“Somebody who's learning how to ice skate for the first time would need skates, a helmet for head protection and elbow pads, because you do fall quite a bit.”

Needs Firsts Fall Bits First Time Protection Ice Elbows Skates Helmet Pads

Author:Gerad Adams

“At the other end of the scale I was there with a whole lot of young British athletes so I was getting to see them take their first steps on the international ladder. I'd like to think maybe in five years time I'll look back and I'll forget all about the lost luggage and I'll forget about the horrible hotel, but I'll remember these wonderful athletes stepping onto the track for the first time.”

“You are more thoughtful because you don't act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks - there is something about that number - but when 70 came along I felt good about it.”

Firsts Age Young Felt Numbers First Time Thoughtful Fifty Bricks

Author:Jack Nicholson

“The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year.”

People Trying Years Firsts Persons Minutes Figures Gains First Time Spread Witness Momentum

Author:Darren Criss

“When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.”

Firsts Earth Political Reading News First Time

Author:Bjork

“Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors' item in its own way - not because of any special artistic quality, but because each captures on a canvas, and suspends in time and space, a frozen moment of a nightmare.”

Way Firsts Art Moments Three Space Quality Special Painting First Time Welcome Evening Artistic Nightmare Capture Canvas Frozen Time And Space Items Collectors Good Evening

Author:Rod Serling

“I think there were six or eight weeks between 'Total Recall' and 'Seven Psychopaths.' I was at home in Los Angeles for 'Seven Psychopaths,' so it was the first time I had worked from my house here so it was great to be around the kids.”

Thinking Firsts Home Kids House Week Six First Time Seven Eight Los Angeles Recalls Psychopath Total Recall

Author:Colin Farrell

“I just saw Twilight on TV, for the first time, a few days ago, and, when my song came on, I was just thinking that is so bazaar that I actually had a song in the movie.”

Thinking Firsts Song Saws Tvs First Time Twilight Bazaars

Author:Robert Pattinson

“Up here [in space], you're free. Really free, for the first time in your life. All the laws and rules and prejudices they've been dumping on you all your life . . . they're all down there. Up here it's a new start. You can be yourself and do your own thing . . . and nobody can tell you different.”

Firsts Different Law Space First Time Prejudice Being Yourself Traveler Astronaut Space Travel New Start Laws And Rules

Author:Ben Bova

“Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.”

Thinking Knows Men Writing Trying Firsts Wells Looks Mean I Can Play Whole Inspiration Happens Together Song Grows Causes Special Picks First Time Guitar Plenty Tunes Songwriting

Author:Bob Marley

“The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.”

Firsts Mother Realizing Loses Family Loneliness First Time Terror Helplessness Desolation

Author:Francis Thompson

“John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His gift is directly from the mind of God and is very powerful. ..... The first time I heard a Love Supreme, it was really an assault. It could've been from mars as far as i was concerned, or another galaxy. I remember the album cover and the name, but the music didn't fit into the patterns of my brain at that point. It was like someone trying to tell a monkey about spirituality or computers, you know, it just didn't compute.”

“I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.”

Years Firsts Two Joy New York First Time Years Ago Glad Two Years Helen Harvey Two Years Ago

Author:James Stewart

“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

“For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hanging against the blackness of space.”

World Firsts Kind Inspiration Motivation Space Saws First Time Our World Fragile Blackness Indestructible

Author:Brian Cox

“The story of the universe finally comes to an end. For the first time in its life, the universe will be permanent and unchanging. Entropy finally stops increasing because the cosmos cannot get any more disordered. Nothing happens, and it keeps not happening, forever. It's what's known as the heat-death of the universe. An era when the cosmos will remain vast and cold and desolate for the rest of time the arrow of time has simply ceased to exist. It's an inescapable fact of the universe written into the fundamental laws of physics, the entire cosmos will die.”

“I think the first time you have to change code you’ve written previously, to add features or remove a bug, you realize that you could have done it better in the first place, that you could have found an architecture that would make it easier to transform and grow the code. And this is terribly seductive—you’re not just building a solution to a problem, you’re potentially building a beautiful solution, with ‘beautiful’ here being defined here by an aesthetics of present and future functionality. This can be a trap.”

“Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.”

Source: Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street

“An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.”

Firsts Humans Doe Artist First Time

Author:Seth

“I saw my rock'n'roll past flash before my eyes. And I saw something else: I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time.”

Feels Firsts Made Eye Past Young Night Names Saws Rocks Needed First Time Hearing Rock N Roll Flash Rock And Roll Springsteen Hearing Music

Author:Jon Landau

“The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to break the air spaces. It's worth everything to be alone in the air, alive.”

Firsts Space Break Alive Air First Time Fullness Flew

Book:Birdy

Source: Birdy

“When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.”

People Knows Firsts I Can Jobs Artist Realizing Ability Class Teach Information First Time Photographer Exceptional

Author:John Sexton

“For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken.”

Men Firsts Made Evil Social Answers Honest Broken Morality Battle First Time Errors Rational Paradox Irrational Borrowed Honest Man Transient Evil Man Social Power Borrowed Time

Author:Andrew Bernstein

“It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.”

Firsts First Time Bass Double Standard Double Bass

Author:Alvin Lee

“When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.”

People Firsts Kids Age Wanted Felt Understood First Time Los Angeles Freak Wacky

Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt

“The sight of Imran [Khan] tearing fearsomely down the hill and the baying of the crowd made me realise for the first time that adrenalin was sometimes brown”

Firsts Made Sometimes First Time Sight Crowds Hills Brown Realising

Author:Simon Hughes

“From the very first time I rest my eyes on you, girl, My heart says follow through.”

Firsts Heart Eye Girl My Heart First Time Follow Through

Author:Bob Marley

“I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'”

People Ifs Knows World Firsts Said War Ends Play Shows Wanted Journey First Time Productions War Of The Worlds World War I Festivals Edinburgh

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Chance First Time Chances Are Parachutes Needing Someone

Author:Scott Adams

“With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.”

Firsts Humans Persons Used First Time Curiosity Woods Human Life Tissues

Author:Joe Murray

“Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.”

Firsts Wells Doe First Time Stones Remakes Sequels

Author:Ben Barnes

“I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?”

Firsts Use Shows Loses First Time Nightmare Virginity Condom

Author:Adam Ant

“If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.”

Ifs Trying Firsts First Time Adages

Author:James Brown

“If 'Black Balloon' had come out before 'The Mummy,' casting agents wouldn't have been able to see me for the first time in 'The Mummy.' But now that 'The Mummy' has come out before 'The Black Balloon,' that's a very good combination.”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens Able Black First Time Very Good Agents Combination Casting Balloons Mummy

Author:Luke Ford

“Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.”

Firsts Opportunity Right Now Band First Time Wake Up Roaming Roaming Around

Author:Carlos Santana

“A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.”

Firsts Said Enough Poor Taken Seeing Sea First Time Delight Manchester

Book:The Pleasures of the Life

Source: The Pleasures of the Life

“The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.”

Ifs World Firsts Vision Discipline First Time Visionaries

Book:The essential Colin Wilson

Source: The essential Colin Wilson

“That everyone won't see it, that everyone won't join you, that everyone won't have the vision... it's necessary to know that... See I wanted everyone to like me, I wanted to be perfect the first time around. IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN. You're gonna make some mistakes, you are gonna create some enemies whenever you decide to take on the world and go after you passion.”

Knows World Firsts Happens Wanted Passion Perfect Mistake Vision Enemy First Time Like Me

Author:Les Brown

“I was five years old the first time I got drunk.”

Years Firsts Five First Time Drunk Five Years Five Year Olds

Book:John Barleycorn

Source: John Barleycorn

“Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.”

People Firsts Mean Age Nations Communication Industry First Time Boring Frightening Extinction

Book:The wanderer

Source: The wanderer

“After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.”

Thinking Men Firsts Games First Time Golf Golf Course

Author:Tom Watson

“The Republic-of-China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time”

Inspirational Firsts Funny Games First Time China Republic Entertaining Athletics Olympic Games Bloopers

Author:David Coleman

“Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time as we rest more and more in the work of the Son of God.”

People Firsts Joy Taken Son Ambition Eternal First Time Avarice Restlessness

Author:Michael Horton

“What stupid f - king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn't work out?”

Ifs Firsts Stupid Kings Married First Time Work Out Idiot

Author:Ben Folds

“We're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches or tame our ideas. You know, it's only out here that stupid people like us can really think. The weightlessness gets our thoughts and we can sort them. Ideas grow out here like nowhere else - it's the right environment for them. Anyone can get into space, if he wants to hard enough. The ticket is a dream.”

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