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“Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.”

Years Firsts Successful Comedy First Time Performances Performers Obscurity Great Performance

Author:Scott Aukerman

“I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.”

Years Firsts Stills Shows First Time Exciting Performing Concerts

Author:Vanilla Ice

“So, it seems, everything is in place. For the first time since homo sapiens began to doodle on cave walls, there is an argument, an opportunity and a means to make serious steps towards a world government.”

World Firsts Mean Seems Government Opportunity Steps Serious Wall First Time Argument Caves Homo Sapiens World Government

Author:Gideon Rachman

“I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.”

Firsts Feelings Remember Differences Forget Audience Stage First Time Never Forget Curtains Forget It Temperature

Author:Sarah Paulson

“I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It was like, back there!”

Firsts Remember First Time Teeth Chairs Bass Swallowing

Author:Stephen Bruner

“At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how you can tell stories on a bigger scale.”

World Firsts Stories Shows Opportunity First Time Bigger Embrace Scales Genre Filmmaker

Author:Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

“I mean, they clearly have a process of how they go about making their movies, and John Lasseter has been instrumental in implementing that process for all three studios with the Brain Trust and the way we work and the way we break stories and how it's all creative led. There are no executives in the room. So I think all of that is embraced unilaterally. But that's the first time I've heard of that.”

Thinking Way Firsts Mean Has Beens Stories Three Process Rooms Brain Break Creative Heard First Time Studios Executives Implementing

Author:Klay Hall

“I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.”

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Author:Peter Sarsgaard

“The Taboo scene was a kind of deconstructed version of the New Romantics. The Taboo crowd was using a lot of the visual ideas that had already been used. I remember the first time I spotted Leigh Bowery and Trojan parading around in clubs: They were in their "Pakis from Outer Space" look, and the makeup was quite similar to one of my old looks, because I was quite fond of wearing blue, green, or yellow foundation, and so I was pretty dismissive of them at first.”

Firsts Looks Kind Ideas Remember Used Space Scene First Time Blue Foundation Green Crowds Clubs Versions Visuals Makeup Yellow Taboo Outer Space Trojans

Author:Boy George

“What happened during the previews of 'Taboo' [musical] was that it was the first time I'd ever been written about as a great song-writer - I cried. I absolutely wept, because it wasn't the usual stuff like, "Oh, he was a drug addict and he did this and that..." It was really looking at the music and it was really complimentary. It was a huge thing.”

Firsts Song Stuff Written Happened Huge Drug First Time Musical Usual Cried Addict Taboo Drug Addict Preview

Author:Boy George

“As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.”

Firsts Cutting Directors First Time Finals Producers

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do.”

Firsts Said Pain Night Left Saws Sky First Time Towns Awake Touching Throat Sucker Breathless Touching You

Book:Live for a Living

Source: Live for a Living

“We all have to accept accusations that we ignored the refugee crisis for far too long. The first time that I referred to the Mediterranean Sea as Europe's cemetery was in October 2013, when hundreds of people drowned off Lampedusa. Italians, Maltese, Greeks and Spaniards have been pleading for help for years. But nobody cared.”

“The first time I ever intersected with the quote unquote industry or Hollywood or being given a paid job as a director all came because of the reputation I got coming out of Sundance as a veteran Sundance filmmaker.”

Firsts Jobs Given Industry Directors First Time Hollywood Paid Reputation Filmmaker Coming Out Veteran Sundance

Author:Lynn Shelton

“You know that scene at the beginning (of 'Pirate Radio') where I take The Count a cup of tea in the studio, and he shakes my hand, gives me a hug, and slaps me on the arse? That's genuinely the first time Tom Sturridge met Philip Seymour Hoffman. Literally, I'd hadn't seen him or exchanged words with him before. Richard just called me on set and said, 'Take him a cup of tea.' So that's what I did. And the smile of delight as he slaps me on the arse is purely mine.”

Knows Giving Firsts Said Hands Mines Mets Scene First Time Give Me Radio Delight Studios Cups Tea Shakes Hug Toms Pirate Slap Cups Of Tea Philip Arses Pirate Radio

Author:Tom Sturridge

“If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work up little by little. You actually fail to life a hundred pounds, every day, until the day you succeed. But it is in the days when you are exerting yourself that the growth is occurring.”

Ifs Want Firsts Littles Growth Failing Succeed Hundred First Time Weight Lifts Pounds Lighters

Author:Norman Doidge

“In Buddhism, what is known as beginner's mind is a way to look at the world as if for the first time: with interest, enthusiasm, and engagement. This may be the optimal state of mind for a healthy brain.”

Ifs World Way Mind Firsts Looks May States Interest Brain Known Buddhism Healthy First Time Enthusiasm State Of Mind Engagement Beginners Optimal

Author:Louis Cozolino

“I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.”

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Author:Candice Accola

“I went to New York to be where the beautiful people were and it didn't disappoint me. It's so open. It's a great platform to do your own thing or start new things. When I got there, I started living for the first time.”

People Firsts Beautiful New York First Time Platforms New Things Disappoint Beautiful People

Author:Antony Hegarty

“Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.”

Should Firsts Doe Evolution First Time Built Simplicity Complexity Hinder Top Down Optimization

Author:Alan Perlis

“'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming.”

Thinking Knows Men World Firsts Looks Doe Matter Reality Earth Remember Names Water Forget Fire Air Taste First Time Transformation Fellows Lips Esteem Look Up Air And Water Words Matter

Author:Roger Zelazny

“Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.”

Firsts Looks Wonder Seeing Perspective First Time Through The Eyes

Author:Betty Smith

“I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.”

Firsts I Can Girl Approach First Time Nervous Initials Reins

Author:Jensen Ackles

“There were a lot of people shouting out. I know it's not proper tennis etiquette, but this is the first time I've ever played here that the crowd has been behind me like that. Today I felt American, you know, for the first time at the U.S. Open. So I've waited my whole career to have this moment and here it is. ... It was great. It was awesome. It was like winning gold.”

People Knows Firsts Has Beens Whole Moments Today Winning Felt Behinds Careers First Time Gold Crowds Tennis Etiquette Shouting

Author:Venus Williams

“Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.”

Firsts First Time Obsessed Brazil

Author:Candice Swanepoel

“One of my first jobs was in Italy and that's where I saw cocaine for the first time. There was a murder in our group that weekend. I decided then and there that I would never do drugs. I have anxiety attacks, so there's no way I could do them.”

Way Firsts Jobs Saws Groups Drug Anxiety First Time Decided Murder Weekend Cocaine Anxiety Attacks

Author:Linda Evangelista

“Never make a personnel judgment the first time it comes up.”

Firsts Judgment First Time Come Up Personnel

Author:Alfred P. Sloan

“There's an old poem by Neruda that I've always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with me ever since the first time I read it. It says "love is so short, forgetting is so long." It's a line I've related to in my saddest moments, when I needed to know someone else had felt that exact same way. And when we're trying to move on, the moments we always go back to aren't the mundane ones. They are the moments you saw sparks that weren't really there, felt stars aligning without having any proof, saw your future before it happened, and then saw it slip away without any warning.”

“I get to listen to a lot of this music again doing my DJ work on Little Steven's Underground Garage. To hear Van [Morrison] on Them's version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"- what a vocal, and what an arrangement. Also, I get to hear so many records that I missed the first time around - The Chocolate Watchband, Roky Erikson. It's an audio food fest, a total privilege, a second chance.”

Firsts Littles Chance Records Baby First Time Blue Privilege Versions Chocolate Arrangements Vans Vocal Second Chance Garage Djs Audio Erikson

Author:Andrew Loog Oldham

“It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.”

People World Firsts Stills Ideas Running Today Song Voice Heard Land First Time Tables Hearing Jail Sixty Going To Work Listening To Music Scrap Postman Busting Busting Out

Author:Bob Dylan

“When you're a first time director, you're often considered what's called a "deadly attachment" in the eyes of financiers, because they're trusting you with a lot of money to bring something home, to get great performances, to not have a nervous breakdown in the process.”

Firsts Home Eye Process Directors First Time Performances Nervous Attachment Lots Of Money Breakdown Financiers Nervous Breakdown Great Performance Trusting You

Author:John Krokidas

“I love Taxi Driver. When I saw it the first time, I didn't understand it, but I loved it because I thought the guy was really cool when he's talking to himself in the mirror.”

Firsts Guy Talking Saws First Time Mirrors Drivers Really Cool Taxi

Author:Vincent Paronnaud

“Honestly, the two main things that I always look for is, when I read the script for the first time, do I read it quickly? Because if I read it quick, that's an important telltale sign.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Two Important First Time Scripts Honestly

Author:Colin Hanks

“I've done so many movies with first-time directors, and honestly I just go with gut instinct. People that usually can tell me a good story, and talk to me about why the movie is the movie they want to make. I just go with my gut.”

People Want Firsts Done Stories Directors First Time Instinct Honestly Guts Good Story Talk To Me Gut Instinct

Author:Neal H. Moritz

“I remember in the Carpenter version, you got acquainted with the characters and really knew them. It was a real character piece. Each actor was serviced in the movie, and we tried to do that in this movie as well. I like the fact that there was a European, first-time director. I'd known of him because I'm from Europe. I knew him as a commercial director and thought one of his commercials was great. I thought it was an interesting take on such a big-budget cult classic.”

Firsts Wells Real Character Facts Bigs Remember Actors Interesting Known Pieces Directors First Time Europe Versions Budgets Classic Cult Carpenter Real Character

Author:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

“Thanks to Barack Obama, America is for the first time aligning its values with those of 'the majority of the world's population.' If you think the world's population has had better values than America, that is has made societies that are more open, free, and tolerant than American society, and that is has fought for others' liberty more than America has, you should be delighted.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Firsts Made America Values Liberty First Time Majority Population Thanks Barack Delighted American Society

Author:Dennis Prager

“Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.”

Want Firsts Looks Book First Time Concerned Smarter Royalty Notoriety

Book:The Self-publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book

Source: The Self-publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book

“I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.”

Knows Firsts Know How Impossible First Time Workers Unemployed Scrap

Author:Paul McCartney

“I wrestled and played football in high school and in my last year, I started as a wrestler and actually had a fairly good record. But I hated to lose. I always gave it everything I had which, unfortunately, was not as much as I'd hoped for. But keep in mind, I feel like I got the most out of my ability. One moment that was special above all the rest was winning my last bout at the Naval Academy to finish the entire summer undefeated. That was thrilling, but what's more, it helped me in prison because the first time I got knocked around by the Vietnamese, it did not come as a total shock.”

“The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.”

“If it does not work the first time, try, try again. Then quit. No need to be an idiot.”

Ifs Needs Trying Firsts Doe First Time Quitting Idiot Try Again

Author:W. C. Fields

“My mom was a housewife, and wasn't somebody that people would think of as a feminist, and when Ms. Magazine came out we were incredibly inspired by it. I used to cut pictures out of it and make posters that said, "Girls can do anything", and stuff like that, and my mom was inspired to work at a basement of a church doing anti-domestic violence work. Then she took me to the Soidarity Day thing, and it was the first time I had ever been in a big crowd of women yelling, and it really made me want to do it forever.”

“When you fail to succeed the first time, keep trying. It's called life.”

Trying Firsts Failing Succeed First Time Keep Trying Fail To Succeed

Author:William Cranch Bond

“The first time I ever saw Lydia Lunch perform it was a religious experience. Not only is she intelligent and beautiful but she actually understands how "my" brain works. This almost rivals my first concert- Cindy Lauper when I was 12. She was so fascinating to me at the time. She made me want to dye my hair pink and start a band. (SO I naturally did)... All Cure records have had a great effect on me musically also.”

Want Firsts Made Beautiful Religious Brain Records Saws Effects Hair Band First Time Intelligent Cures Fascinating Concerts Lunch Rivals Religious Experience Cindy

Author:Jessicka

“There is now a $5 million dollar bounty on Osama bin Laden. Which marks the first time in history there has ever been a bounty on a guy's head who wears Bounty on his head.”

Firsts Guy Millions First Time Mark Dollars Million Dollars Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden Bounty

Author:Jay Leno

“A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,000. The strange thing is that it's the first time that David Lee Roth has had any publicity in ten years.”

Years Firsts Said Stars Rocks Strange Ten First Time Relation Firm Rock Star Publicity Strange Things Public Relations

Author:Conan O'Brien

“The most rewarding part about being a dad is just looking at children who didn't exist at some point. The first time you saw them, they were the size of a quarter, in a sonogram, and now they can pour orange juice and yell at each other.”

Firsts Children Saws Dad First Time Size Quarters Orange Juice Being A Dad Orange Juice

Author:Paul Reiser

“The first time I tried to put a new diaper on my baby, I yanked the little Velcro strap too jerkily and actually punched the little guy in the jaw. A real solid shot, too. I knew instinctively that this could not be correct. Unless you're specifically trying to raise a welterweight, continual deliverance of powerful uppercuts is not advised when handling newborns.”

Trying Firsts Littles Real Guy Powerful Baby Shots First Time Raises Deliverance My Baby Diapers Velcro

Author:Paul Reiser

“I think the one thing I would point to as a primary reason, basically, is that I was a gigantic ass, ... It's the first time I got dumped in my life.”

Thinking Firsts Reason One Thing First Time Ass Primaries Dumped

Author:David Letterman

“At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.”

Firsts Perfect Fronts Gun First Time Wire Tempo Journalistic

Author:Shana Alexander

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