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“I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.”

Firsts Remember First Time Meetings Likes Jimmy Jimmy Stewart

“It was the first time I used that bat. A Yankee fan in Chicago gave it to me the last time we were there and said it would bring me luck. There's no brand name on it or anything. Maybe the guy made it himself. It had been in the bat rack, and I picked it up by mistake because it looked like the bat I had been using the last few days.”

Firsts Made Said Lasts Used Guy Names Mistake Fans First Time Luck Made It Brands Chicago Last Time Bats Yankees New York Yankees Racks Brand Names Yankee Fans

Author:Graig Nettles

“I have read many, many of these first-time published efforts and often, even though some are absolutely at pro levels of production, and have very costly printing and presentation, they lack a purpose, they merely emulate successful comics that already exist... I can't stress this enough. Have something to say.”

Firsts I Can Book Enough Purpose Levels Effort Successful First Time Stress Productions Comic Comic Book Presentation Printing Emulate

Author:Gail Simone

“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.”

Knows Firsts Doe Said Hard Next Games Bits Taken Football Findings First Time Golf Managers Soccer Reserves Chairman

Author:Ron Atkinson

“I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever coached against his son. He beat me for 30 minutes the first time and 59 and a half minutes the second time.”

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Author:Don Shula

“If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.”

Ifs Firsts Long Two Winning Sports New York First Time Regard Cups Compare Edmonton

Author:Mark Messier

“Our coaches want to be a part of South Carolina football when they win it for the first time. When they win the division, when they win the SEC, win a major bowl game, etc. The opportunities to do it all for the first time here make it extra special.”

Want Firsts Opportunity Games Winning Sports Special Football Majors First Time South Coaches Extras Etc Division Bowls Carolina South Carolina

Author:Steve Spurrier

“In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.”

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Author:Karl Taylor Compton

“Well I loved Little League; so all the memories are pretty fond but I broke my thumb. That wasn't a lot of fun. I think probably the first time I pitched [I started out as a first baseman] and the first game I pitched in Little League, I struck out 10 batters. I had a curve ball a little early [laughs]. You're not really supposed to have one when you're 12, but I did, so I first game I struck out 10 batters. That's possibly my fondest memory.”

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Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.”

Ifs Firsts Feelings Names Gone Changed Office First Time Chosen Marlowe

Author:Kim Novak

“I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.”

Firsts Believe Stills Facts Directors First Time Producers

Author:Sam Mendes

“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

“This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.”

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Author:John Helm

“I told Grant Hill back there – I just got done playing against him – as a second grader I had a Pistons Grant Hill jersey. That was the first time I walked into a gym. That’s when I fell in love with the game. My mom, I think she just wanted to get me and my brothers out of the house for a few hours. When I walked into the gym, I fell in love with the game.”

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Author:Kevin Durant

“First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow, I know there's like twenty minutes that I can cut - ' when I first saw it 'But I don't know after that.' The first time I put up then in front of people I was like, 'Oh, my God, I can take that out and that out and that out.'”

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Author:Ben Stiller

“The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.”

Firsts Comedy Summer First Time

Author:Sarah Silverman

“The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.”

Years Firsts Faces Asks Literature Changed First Time Years Ago Asking Raised Compare Noses Denied Cheekbones

Author:Martin Bashir

“"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

“This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe.”

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Author:Paul Auster

“Big story at the Olympics regarding Michael Phelps. He stepped out with his girlfriend for the first time. She is a 25-year-old model from Los Angeles. Like every other model in L.A., She's dating an older retired guy. What's going on?”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“... the introduction of the doctrine of polygamy was the first time in my life that I desired the grave, and I could hardly get over it for a long time. And when I saw a funeral, I felt to envy the corpse its situation.”

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Author:Brigham Young

“I've had plenty of friends tell me that their first time doing stand-up, they do well, and then they tank for a while after that. Kind of like the first time you do a drug, you're like, "Huh! This is pretty darn good," and then you spend all your money trying to get the same high.”

Trying Firsts Wells Kind Drug First Time Plenty Tanks

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one.”

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Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.”

Knows Firsts Chance Careers Risk First Time Filmmaker Ambitious Take A Chance Chance And Risk

Author:Michael B. Jordan

“We [film supervisors] always try to encourage discussion in the room because a lot of times newer animators who are just out of school or people come from other studios, they're gonna have different points of view and we want to make sure we're vetting all the ideas to get the best ones. A lot of people are shy about speaking up if this is their first time at Pixar or if they don't have a lot of experience, so we try to encourage that.”

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Author:Victor Navone

“When you fall in love for the first time, you're naive to every feeling that you're feeling, and you're almost obsessed with or addicted to that person. Your life is consumed by them, and everything you want to do revolves around them. I think it's great.”

Thinking Want Firsts Persons Feelings Life Is Fall First Time Falling In Love Obsessed Naive Consumed

Author:Alex Pettyfer

“When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your performance apart. You say, "I look horrible. I should quit."”

Should Firsts Looks Hate Actors Seeing First Time Performances Quitting Horrible Hate You Seeing Yourself Hating Yourself

Author:Sandra Bullock

“There's always a tension between wanting to write a really concise, instant gratification type song that gets under your skin the first time you hear it, and wanting to really stretch out. I think it's a healthy tension.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Song Type Healthy First Time Skins Instant Tension Gratification Instant Gratification Concise

Author:Andrew Bird

“A lot of people talk about the trail healing them, but I feel like, the first time, it humbled me, which I probably needed. It was a completely new way to experience the world and my body.”

People World Way Feels Firsts Body Healing Needed First Time New Ways Trails

Author:Jennifer Pharr Davis

“I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of people has also served as a call to action, because many people now are re-examining their own value systems, and the churches, temples, mosques and cathedrals are packed to overflowing for the first time in years.”

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Author:Jane Goodall

“I never know the right thing to say, especially during sex. After my first time, I said to the girl, 'That's it, I'm afraid'”

Knows Firsts Said Girl Sex First Time Right Thing Right Thing To Say

Author:Tom Deacon

“It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.”

Men Firsts Children Facts Shows Remember Strong Knowing Birth First Time Mere Speed Proof Reincarnation

Book:Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger

Source: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger

“I get cast gay a fair amount throughout my life. It's not the first time. Matt [Letscher] was kind of like, 'Jeff, um, I'm gonna pretend this is real easy and not a problem, but I've never done this at all.' And so you know, we were awkward for a while. And then he said, 'Let's go for it. Come on. I'm gonna pretend you're my girlfriend, my wife. Here we go.' And we had a lot of fun.”

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Author:Jeff Perry

“The first time you face up to a googly you're going to be in trouble if you've never faced one before”

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Author:Trevor Bailey

“This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.”

Firsts First Time Auditions

Author:Paul McCartney

“Before, I was always the kid that was in the background. It was hard for me to get casted in even one program, and when people thought that I was a guest on a show for the first time when I had been on before, it saddened me. Suddenly getting the spotlight? That's! Not! True!”

People Firsts Hard Shows Kids First Time Program Backgrounds Guests Spotlight Saddened

Author:IU

“I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.”

Firsts New York First Time Obsessed Honey Sausage

Author:Natalia Tena

“The first time I came to London on my own, I was 15. I was absolutely oblivious to so many things. I had no expectations, no fears. I just came to do a National Youth Theatre season one summer. It was just brilliant.”

Firsts My Own Youth Summer Expectations First Time Seasons London Theatre Brilliant No Fear Oblivious Youth Theatre

Author:Gina McKee

“I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.”

Trying Firsts Clothes First Time Excuse Chosen Agents Recalls

Author:Tahar Rahim

“My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.'”

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Author:Katy Mixon

“The first time I got a chance to meet Michael was onstage at Madison Square Garden. There were tons of people on the stage, and I just remember losing my mind. Like, Oh my God, that's Michael Jackson right there. I was just over his right shoulder. And then when I finally got a chance to get on the stage with him, I was just shut down. He had the type of magic that you just bowed to. I just said, "I love you, and I know you've heard it a million and one times from fans all over the world, but you've meant so much to me as an entertainer, and I love you, and I've admired you all these years.”

“The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.”

Firsts First Time Asking Secretary Asking Questions

Author:Bing Gordon

“I love to talk to children about making mistakes. Its important that I tell them about how I dont get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.”

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Author:Patricia MacLachlan

“The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.”

Firsts Seems Truth Wonderful First Time Experience Familiar Instant Simplest

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“I love my parents and they're wonderful people, but they were strict, and I still look for ways to get even. When I got my own apartment for the very first time and they came to stay with me for the weekend, I made them stay in separate bedrooms.”

People Way Firsts Looks Made Stills Parent My Own Wonderful First Time Weekend Apartment Bedroom Strict Stay With Me Love My Parents I Love My Parents

Author:Elayne Boosler

“The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.”

Firsts Feelings Desire Felt Space Quality First Time Western Wide Canada Flats Horizon Peculiar Verses Virgins Prairie Western Canada

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“There's one thing about freedom ... each generation of people begins by thinking they've got it for the first time in history, and ends by being sure the generation younger than themselves have too much of it. It can't really always have been increasing at the rate people suppose, or there would be more of it by now.”

People Thinking Firsts Has Beens Ends Would Be Freedom Too Much Generations One Thing First Time Rate

Author:Rose Macaulay

“When I saw a phone on a plane for the first time, I panicked ... I thought people were going to call me.”

People Firsts Saws First Time Phones Planes Call Me

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Many people are intimidated by doctors. ... People also feel stupid when they don't understand what a doctor's talking about the first time around, so they don't ask again. And let's be honest here, people. English is not a doctor's first language.”

People Feels Firsts Asks Language Talking Honest Stupid First Time Doctors Being Honest Intimidated

Author:Erma Bombeck

“Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.”

Firsts Eye Turns Heaven Glory First Time

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

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