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“I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform.”

People Firsts Art Shows Life Is Felt Too Much Art Is First Time Towns Paint China Sentences Drawing Innocent Canvas Portraits Conform Small Town Small Town Life Overreaction

Author:Alice Neel

“You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions.”

Firsts Humans Eye Strong Understanding Views Painting Drama Scene First Time Reactions Behave Evoke Human Eyes

Author:Mike Svob

“Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.”

Ifs Men Firsts Said Done Law Pleasure Materials Birth Activity First Time Sells Slave Profit Deny Thanks Enjoyment Display Dishes Said And Done Deployment Lentils

Author:African Spir

“I'm Italian. I love to cook Italian food, so I learned from my dad how to make sauce and meatballs and all that stuff. With my wife and kids, I started making homemade pasta. The very first time, I didn't have a pasta maker, so I had to cut it with a knife, the old-school way! The noodles were all jacked up, but it was fun.”

Way Firsts Kids School Fun Stuff Cutting Wife Dad First Time My Dad My Wife Cooks Makers Italian Knives Sauce Old School Pasta Homemade Noodles Italian Food Meatballs My Wife And Kids

Author:Joey Fatone

“I think the first time I realised Downton Abbey was a hit was when I was sitting in a tea shop in New York and the couple next to me were talking about Downton Abbey, and then they recognised me.”

Thinking Firsts Next Talking New York Couple Sitting First Time Tea Shops Realised Abbey

Author:Michelle Dockery

“The first time I did stand-up was on a dare.”

Firsts First Time Dare

Author:Judy Gold

“I had kissed a girl in the second season of 'Community,' but that was my first time kissing a girl ever, and I was so nervous, I almost knocked Brit Marling's teeth out.”

Firsts Girl Community Kissing First Time Seasons Teeth Nervous Brits Kissing A Girl

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.”

Firsts Bigs Car Stupid First Time Thrill Limousines

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.”

Firsts Used Money First Time Fortune Spending Command

Book:The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

“I like computers. It's the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.”

Firsts Computer First Time Brands Allies Savvy Endorsing

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically.”

Firsts School Healthy High School First Time Weight Nutritionist

Author:Jonah Hill

“I learned an invaluable lesson from a kid in Argentina when we were playing Buenos Aires in 2002. I came out of the hotel and this 16-year-old-boy asked me to sign his copy of my Six Wives of Henry VIII album. As I was signing it I asked him 'what does a 16 year-old like about this old music?' and he looked at me, quite hurt, and said, 'it might be old to you, Mr Wakeman, but I only heard it for the first time last week. When you hear something for the first time, it's new.' I've never forgotten that.”

Years Firsts Doe Said Might Kids Lasts Hurt Boys Wife Heard Week Lessons Six First Time Forgotten Albums Hotel Copies Signing Invaluable Argentina Old Music Henry Viii Buenos Aires Henry V

Author:Rick Wakeman

“The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I was completely intrigued by what these people put their bodies through.”

People Firsts Body Culture First Time Passages Documentaries Ceremony Attempting Intrigued Rite Other Cultures Suspension Rite Of Passage

Book:Mindfreak: Secret Revelations

Source: Mindfreak: Secret Revelations

“I went to a Katy Perry concert, and I experienced pure bliss for the first time in my life.”

Firsts Pure First Time Bliss Concerts Pure Bliss

Author:Eden Sher

“The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'”

Firsts Records Heard First Time Holiday

Author:Diana Ross

“It seemed to me that I had come for the first time close to the soil of my native country, and could feel for the first time running in my veins Russia's vastness, her potency, her strength.”

Feels Firsts Country Running First Time Russia Soil Native Veins Vastness Potency Native Country

Author:Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia

“For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country ... not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change,” she said. “I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment.”

“I went to this massive co-ed school for the first time when I was 16. Everyone there had been together since elementary school, and I found it quite difficult, especially when I'd never stepped into a classroom with boys. So I started looking out in the community for a social outlet. I started getting involved in student films and community theater. Acting began as a hobby.”

Firsts School Together Film Found Social Difficult Community Acting Boys Students Involved First Time Theater Massive Classroom Hobbies Outlets Elementary School

Author:Holland Roden

“Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.”

Firsts Kind Littles Sometimes Moments First Time Exciting Scripts Bumps Geese Iconic

Author:Aaron Ashmore

“Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.”

Firsts Children School Life Is First Time Our Children Your Children

Author:Arabella Weir

“I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.”

Firsts Felt Tvs First Time Apollo Showtime

Author:Sevyn Streeter

“In Paris in 1964 was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. Paul got the record (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) from a French DJ. For three weeks in Paris we didn't stop playing it. We all went potty about Dylan.”

Firsts Three Music Records Heard Week First Time Paris Bob Dylan Djs Potty

Author:John Lennon

“This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.”

Firsts Humans Given Difficult Economic Development Models First Time Tasks Climate Change Global Warming Human History Economic Development Difficult Tasks

Author:Christiana Figueres

“The first time I met Beyonce she was about 18 years old, sitting in a makeup chair eating fried chicken, and I knew it was only a matter of time before everyone would know her name.”

Knows Years Firsts Matter Names Mets Eating Sitting First Time Chairs Makeup Chickens Beyonce Fried Chicken Matter Of Time

Author:Gayle King

“With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.”

Firsts Looks Long Has Beens Reality Past Speak Language Wish Photography First Time Impression Past Experiences

Author:Ernst Haas

“Visiting any shop for the first time is exciting. There's always that buzz as you push open the door; that hope; that belief - that this is going to be the shop of all shops, which will bring you everything you ever wanted, at magically low prices.”

Firsts Wanted Belief Doors Lows First Time Exciting Shops Visiting Buzz

Book:Shopaholic Abroad: (Shopaholic Book 2)

Source: Shopaholic Abroad: (Shopaholic Book 2)

“In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, "This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for". No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.”

Firsts Lost Easy Waiting First Time Boxing No Fear Muhammad Nervousness

Author:George Foreman

“Im a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in 96. He was on a record with Shabban Siddiq. I was like, Who is this guy? Hes dope! First album came out: awesome. Second album came out: awesome. Third album, I was like, Eh. He started to get really successful. He wasnt mine anymore.”

Firsts Guy Successful Records Heard Mines First Time Thirds Hip Hop Albums Hips Hops This Guy Get Real Dope

Author:Russell Peters

“Winning the ACM, winning the CMA, my first time on the Opry and having Grammy nominations were all a big deal to me.”

Firsts Bigs Winning Deals First Time Big Deal Nominations Grammy

Author:Joe Nichols

“I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk rock performer' and in the blues clubs I'd be a 'folk blues entertainer.'”

Firsts Bigs Remember Artist Rocks Havens First Time Jazz Folks Scared Clubs Performers Entertainers Posters

Author:Richie Havens

“For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.”

Men Firsts Ends Reality Names Talking Authority First Time Realism American History Emergencies Realist Paranoid Crackpots

Author:C. Wright Mills

“The events in Prague, together with the Berlin blockade, convinced the European recipients of American economic assistance that they needed military protection as well: that led them to request the creation of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which committed the United States for the first time ever to the peacetime defense of Western Europe.”

“You need not expect to get your book right the first time.”

Needs Writing Firsts Book First Time Thunder And Lightning

Book:Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

“You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.”

Firsts Forever Knowing First Time Knowing Nothing Timer Always Knowing

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“Mr. Chairman, I think the record should show that for the first time since McKinley, we have a Republican president worth shooting, and I think that's a good sign.”

Thinking Should Firsts Shows President Records Republican First Time Shooting American Politics Chairman Mckinley

Author:James Johnson

“Henry Ford made a lot of money making cars at one time, but that was a small advantage to him compared to the benefit to millions of people who for the first time in their lives were emancipated from common public carriers and could live where they wanted, move at the hours they wanted, to the places they wanted. Ford collected a billion bucks, but that was peanuts compared to the benefits.”

People Firsts Made Wanted Moving Hours Money Common Millions Car Benefits First Time Advantage Billions Making Money One Time Lots Of Money Bucks Peanuts Carrier

Author:George Stigler

“This is a proud moment for our city. This is the first time we have won a Finals game in this city, and I'm happy to be part of the history.”

Firsts Moments Games Cities Proud First Time Finals Championship Nba Championships Proud Moments

Author:LeBron James

“I entered a songwriting competition, I didn't win, and one of the judges on the panel was an A&R man at a record label that had no other acts and I signed to them. We sent my demo out to five people and David Kahne got back to me that day, and said I think you're amazing I want to start with you tomorrow. He was like my Harvard reach school, I couldn't believe it. I was really excited. It was the first time anyone of any importance said I was good and I ran with that validation for a long time.”

“I don't like to read anything on the radio for the very first time, because I don't have any notion of a reaction. When I read it out loud, then I get an idea of that, and more of an idea of how to read.”

Firsts Ideas First Time Notion Radio Reactions Loud

Author:David Sedaris

“I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to make the first time you go out, so hopefully the next time it will be better.”

Firsts Next Mistake Willing Fool First Time Hopefully Next Time

Author:Neil Gaiman

“My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.”

Firsts Life Is First Time Constant Revision

Author:Robin Ince

“I didn't come from a wealthy family. I had no money. Maybe it goes back to naivete which is your greatest asset when you're young. If I was starting in comedy today and if it didn't work the first time, I'd probably quit. But I kept at it, kept at it.”

Ifs Firsts Today Young Comedy First Time Starting Quitting Wealthy Assets No Money Naivete

Author:Steve Martin

“The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" You are the voice, that was my name for you.”

Years Firsts Shows Names Voice First Time Years Ago Houston Whitney

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“There's something about the first time an actor runs the material over his or her face you know when they kind of run it through their eyes and you see the thing and there is little imperfections in it and not every line is delivered perfectly, and it doesn't have that mechanical feeling.”

Firsts Kind Littles Feelings Eye Running Faces Actors Lines Materials First Time Imperfection

Author:Clint Eastwood

“If we trace origins of anarchism in the United States, then probably Henry David Thoreau is the closest you can come to an early American anarchist. You do not really encounter anarchism until after the Civil War, when you have European anarchists, especially German anarchists, coming to the United States. They actually begin to organize. The first time that anarchism has an organized force and becomes publicly known in the United States is in Chicago at the time of Haymarket Affair.”

Ifs Firsts War States Force United Known United States First Time Affair Civil War Encounters Organized Chicago Closest Organize Anarchism Anarchist David Thoreau

Author:Howard Zinn

“My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned. I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about.”

“The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was never nervous, but the first time I got on stage, there were four people there and I vomited.”

People Firsts Used Four Stage Fronts First Time Nervous Skates Weird Things

Author:Albert Hammond, Jr.

“The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.”

Ifs Firsts Quality First Time Capacity Assuming Innocence Artistry

Author:Robert Fripp

“Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!”

Firsts Imagine First Time Studios Rap Finding Yourself

Author:Angie Martinez

“Even if I remember the first time perfectly, I don't remember the beginning at all. I mean: the beginning of addiction. It's hard to say when it becomes a problem; it sneaks up on you like a sun shower.”

Ifs Firsts Mean Hard Problem Remember Sun First Time Addiction Showers Sneak

Book:More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

Source: More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

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