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“The first time I met [Sylvester Stallone], he had golf tees up his nose. So I figured we were going to be OK.”

“You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.”

Knows Firsts Lasts Audience Pieces First Time Hearing Last Time

Author:Robert Shaw

“I recognized it immediately the first time it happened - the cackle of the crone. It is the sound of a woman who is caught inside the mystery of the universe, in the irony of the angst, in the place ego abhors. Bliss.”

Firsts Universe Sound Happened Mystery Ego First Time Caught Irony Bliss Angst

Author:Toni Bentley

“. I suppose we could ask the same question of Jesus. God sent Him to be the Messiah of Israel and King of Israel; why did He fail the first time around and get crucified?"”

Firsts Asks Jesus Failing Kings First Time Israel Messiah Jesus God

Author:Pat Robertson

“Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.”

Feels Firsts Made First Time Winner Fencing

Author:Neil Diamond

“The Bible indicates that for three days, Jesus went into the very depths of hell. Right into the enemy's own territory. And He did battle with Satan face to face. Can you imagine what a show down that was? It was good vs. evil. Right vs. wrong. Holiness vs. filth. Here are the two most powerful forces in the universe have come together to do battle for the first time in history. But thank God. The Bible says, "Satan was no match for our Champion". This was no contest.”

“Perseverance. I got cut twice. I got cut in Charlotte. I didn't have to go to Atlanta to audition. I could have said, "I'm not cut out for this." But I said, "I think I'm better than that, I can go try again." So I went to Atlanta and I made it through. Then I got cut the first time around. I could have told them I didn't want to come back for the Wild Card show but I did and look how far I got.”

Thinking Want Trying Firsts Looks Made Said I Can Shows Cutting First Time Perseverance Cards Made It Auditions Try Again Atlanta Charlotte

Author:Clay Aiken

“The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.”

Firsts Said First Time Guitar Studios

Author:George Benson

“Seeing that the 97's are a democracy through and through, inevitably, some of these tons of songs I write will get vetoed. The first time that happened (and every time thereafter), I consoled myself with the thought that sooner or later I'd make a solo record”

Writing Firsts Song Democracy Records Seeing Happened First Time Sooner Or Later Solo

Author:Rhett Miller

“I mean, you can't have sex until you're married if you're Mormon. The first time I had sex, my parents found out. They were listening in on the phone while I was talking about sex to my girlfriend. They freaked out, man. They both cornered me in my bedroom.”

Ifs Men Firsts Mean Found Sex Parent Talking Listening Married First Time Phones Girlfriend Bedroom My Girlfriend Cornered

Author:Bert McCracken

“Happened to be the first time we played the song live, but I absolutely for the life of me could not find the key singing and had to stop the band to find it.”

Firsts Song Happened Keys Band Singing First Time

Author:Joe King

“The difficult thing was deciding what to leave off! I just ultimately tried to strike a balance between what was interesting to hard core fans, and what was exciting to first timers and what I liked.”

Firsts Hard Difficult Interesting Fans Balance First Time Exciting Strikes Core Difficult Things Hard Core Timer

Author:Marco Pirroni

“It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or I'll feel a chord that will resonate and then I'll get something happening in my voice. My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don't know where I'm going. And I record everything. And often, I sort of get into a state, a creative state that is, where I'm just feeling around melodically, and playing things off the top of my head. Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It's like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening.”

Knows Feels Firsts States Feelings Hands Left Sound Voice Creative Records Car Building Happenings First Time Down And Guitar Things Happen Piano Chords

Author:Beth Nielsen Chapman

“I know Busta Rhymes for about a year now and we did a song together and we got an album together which is called "Godzilla vs. King Kong", which is going to be me and Busta. That was really the first time we rocked together on stage.”

Knows Years Firsts Together Song Stage Kings First Time Albums Rhyme Godzilla King Kong

Author:Bone Crusher

“After moving to Los Angeles in the early '90s, I started looking into "music for picture" more seriously and in broader scope. My collaboration as a programmer and arranger with Graeme Revell exposed me for the first time to the full spectrum of film music, including the hectic demands of orchestral scoring and the power politics surrounding the finalization of any score for a major motion picture in Hollywood.”

Firsts Film Moving Demand Majors First Time Hollywood Including Score Los Angeles Collaboration Exposed Scope Spectrum Programmers Motion Pictures Hectic Power Politics Film Music

Author:Paul Haslinger

“Well David "Fathead" Newman was my first experience with improvisation. When I saw him play for the first time I realized that there is an importance of spontaneous music being made on the spot. It was so soulful and singing through his horn. So that's how I was inspired early on.”

Firsts Wells Made Play Saws Music Is Singing First Time Importance Inspired I Realized Spots Spontaneous Horns Improvisation Soulful Newman

Author:Roy Hargrove

“I sometimes suffer from insomnia and one of the first times it ever happened I was like, "I don't know what to do with myself," so I started writing a song and by morning it was finished. It was about how I couldn't sleep... I was 14.”

Knows Writing Firsts Sometimes Suffering Song Sleep Morning Happened First Time Finished Insomnia

Author:Eliot Paulina Sumner

“I had a real comfort with being on a set and in particular working with special effects and because of that background, it became much easier for me to base a first time feature film on a low budget cause I was sort of already knew how to do that.”

Firsts Real Film Causes Special Effects Particular Easier Comfort Lows First Time Backgrounds Budgets Features Special Effects

Author:Duncan Jones

“And as a first time director I needed to work with someone that I felt comfortable with, and that I could get along with. It was a perfect match [with Sam Rockwell]; I am so thrilled I got to work with him. He is a really nice and incredible guy.”

Firsts Guy Felt Perfect Nice Needed Directors Comfortable First Time Incredibles Really Nice Perfect Match

Author:Duncan Jones

“I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.”

Want Trying Firsts Looks Kind Stills Law Night Audience Stage Goes On First Time Meetings Being Yourself In-laws

Author:B. B. King

“I think when you fall in love, whether you're heterosexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, whatever, straight, you feel like it's happening to you for the first time.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Fall Gay Happenings First Time Falling In Love Transgender

Author:Cate Blanchett

“Infertility costs an average of about $16-20,000 per procedure, and you don't always get pregnant the first time. I had to go through it seven times. And adoption and surrogacy are not covered through insurance companies.”

Firsts Company Cost First Time Seven Average Covered Pregnant Adoption Procedures Insurance Companies Infertility Surrogacy

Author:Cindy Margolis

“There is no pain like the first time you get your heart broken.”

Firsts Heart Pain Broken First Time Heart Broke No Pain

Author:Ne-Yo

“When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask."”

People Feels Firsts Littles First Time Glasses Extras Mask

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. I really wanted to be in love, get married, have kids and buy a wood-paneled station wagon for the family. But it didn't work out, and, boy, it wrecked it!”

Firsts Wells Heart Kids Wanted Guy Boys Broken Married First Time Work Out Woods Tragic Stations Wagons Heart Broke

Author:Jamie Foxx

“I got on a horse when I was about 12 years of age, and started galloping around. my mother came up said "where did you learn to ride a horse?" I said "this is the first time I've ever been on a horse" I just knew, I just felt the horse.”

Years Firsts Said Age Mother Felt First Time Horse Galloping

Author:William Shatner

“The first time I go out to Nashville, ever (at this point I had only heard the rumors about what it's like) I had three writing sessions set up. The first two canceled on me. I was kind of pissed off at that point. So I just went back to my hotel room and started writing. And even though I've been to L.A. and experienced a lot of things, at the end of the day I just start to feel like I'm playing acoustically at the first bar I ever played at.”

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Author:Curtis Grimes

“Usually when fans find out about my music for the first time, they're like "Oh this guy's actually for real!" And it's just like yea, you found Waldo.”

Firsts Real Guy Found Fans First Time This Guy

Author:SonReal

“Albom with Trent Willmon is the first project that I haven't had to scrap money together for. The is the first time I've used any outside songs at all; until now it's only been stuff that I've written. This is also the first album of mine that's had any co-writes on it, as well. It's a big step, coming off of anything we've ever done before.”

Writing Firsts Wells Done Bigs Together Used Song Stuff Steps Written Havens Mines Projects First Time Albums Scrap

Author:Curtis Grimes

“Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because it's so foreign and unknown.”

Firsts First Time Instruments Guitar Awkward

Author:Brie Larson

“Well, Japanese fans braced me since 1991 that was my first time I have been to Japan. So I know that Japanese fans has supported me over the years. So it just a lot of love and Wayne Wonder will release more music, more music and more music!”

Knows Years Firsts Wells Has Beens Wonder Fans First Time Release Japan Wayne

Author:Wayne Wonder

“If you go into a battle, it's better to win the first time.”

Ifs Firsts Winning Battle First Time

Author:George S. Patton

“I have always played a lone hand. It is the way my mind works. I have to do my own seeing and my own thinking. But I can tell you that after the market began to go my way I felt for the first time in my life that I had allies - the strongest and truest in the world: underlying conditions. They were helping me with all their might.”

Thinking World Way Mind Firsts I Can Helping Hands Might Felt My Own Seeing Conditions First Time My Way Strongest Allies Truest Lone

Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“When contemplating a shield that would protect America for incoming missiles, Democrats suddenly became hardheaded fiscal conservatives. For the first time in recorded history, liberals were concerned about the cost and usefulness of a government program. These people believe federally funded art therapy for the homeless will pay for itself. That you can take to the bank. But a shield to repel incoming nuclear missiles from American soil they said, was too expensive and wouldn't work.”

“I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I’ve loved writing my whole life. When I put them together it was probably in my early 20s, where I put words to music for the first time.”

Writing Firsts Whole Together Singing First Time Whole Life Writing Poetry Early 20s

Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.”

Firsts Reason Actors House Stage First Time Subconscious Realised Interrupting

Author:Eddie Marsan

“You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'”

Firsts Joy Simple Son First Time Ducks Your Son Seagull Simple Joys

Author:Russell Crowe

“Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.”

Thinking Years Firsts Used Walks Happenings First Time Red Carpet Red Carpet

Author:Jeff Bridges

“Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was stuck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card.”

Firsts Dream Inspiration Universe Lines Communication First Time Stuck Cards

Book:Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)

Source: Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)

“When you meet someone for the first time instead of asking them what they do, you should ask them what they've always wanted to do. This conversation will be much more interesting.”

Should Firsts Wanted Asks Interesting Conversation First Time Asking

Author:Dallas Clayton

“It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.”

Writing Firsts Perfect First Time Get Better Over It Fifth

Author:Jane Yolen

“Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.”

Firsts Kind First Time Yeah Lifetime Programming Impressed

Author:Beau Bridges

“Don't get seduced by your own stuff. Don't get high on your own supply. The hardest thing as a filmmaker is when you're watching a film that you've worked on for several years. You know every frame so intimately that holding lots of the objectivity of a new viewer who has just seen it for the first time is the hardest thing. Every aesthetic decision you make - and you make thousands of them every day, have to - in theory, must be done from you being a blank slate. You almost have to run a program, like a mind wipe, every time you watch the movie.”

“I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence.”

Firsts Self Terrible First Time Self Confidence

Author:Lynn Johnston

“Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it's my job to find it.”

People Firsts Stories Jobs First Time Assuming

Book:What I Know Now: Simple Lessons Learned the Hard Way

Source: What I Know Now: Simple Lessons Learned the Hard Way

“You guys have to understand that I started in as deep of waters as there is. I've been the underdog since the first time I put gloves on. I love my fans but I don't give a crap about who thinks who is gonna win or not. This isn't a team sport. I'm the one that has to deal with the person fighting in front of me.”

Thinking Giving Firsts Persons Guy Fighting Winning Sports Water Deals Team Fans Fronts First Time Crap Gloves Underdog Sports Team

Author:Joe Warren

“Hillary Clinton has reportedly accepted Barack Obama's offer to become secretary of state. That's what they're saying in the New York Times. Yeah, according to Bill Clinton, this is the first time in 20 years that Hillary has said 'yes.'”

Years Firsts Said States New York Offers First Time Yeah Bills Clinton Accepted Barack Secretary New York Times

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Today the Washington Post did an article; they compared the 2008 presidential election to the 1932 presidential election. They did a comparison, mainly because 1932 was the first time John McCain ran for president.”

Firsts Today President First Time Election Posts Presidential Ran Comparison Articles Mccain Presidential Election

Author:Conan O'Brien

“By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don't have to have it figured out perfectly the first time - you can adjust.”

Firsts First Time Genuine Remarkable Connecting

Author:Seth Godin

“I've been on projects before where there's no rehearsal, and you walk in on set and that's literally the first time you've ever played the character, and then I've had times where there's been three weeks of rehearsal. I like both.”

Firsts Character Three Walks Week Projects First Time Rehearsal

Author:Josh Hutcherson

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