“I think that a lot of teenagers think they got it all down-pat. Especially when they first move out and they're on their own for the first time. Oh this is easy, this is breezy. Then all of a sudden it hits you in your mid-twenties that maybe you don't know how to do your taxes still. There's all kinds of things and you start calling your parents up again.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsKindStillsMovingEasyParentKnow HowCallingTaxesFirst TimeTwentiesAll KindsTeenagerBreezy Author:Katy Perry
“The love is so powerful that both people have to surrender. I think that's the funny thing about dating somebody for the first time, it's kind of a question of who wears the pants, or who's gonna text you first, how much am I supposed to put myself out there, and it makes you feel a little bit crazy. But at the end of the day, it's not about that. And if it's the right person you don't have to worry about that.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsFirstsKindLittlesPersonsEndsBitsLove IsPowerfulWorryCrazyLittle BitFirst TimeDatingSurrenderThe End Of The DayPantsFunny ThingsRight Person Author:Zella Day
“I was in Mongolia, pretty extreme situations. We were sick with dysentery, we were sick with bronchitis. I had been bitten by a dog for the first time in my life and my whole hand was black, and there was no way to even think of getting a rabies shot without driving for five days, and then you wouldn't have wanted that needle in your skin anyway. And I had my period. Everything was wrong at one time. Like, I couldn't have been more uncomfortable. And I stayed up - it was too cold to sleep.” ThinkingWayFirstsHas BeensWholeHandsWantedBlackSleepSituationFiveDogColdPeriodsShotsFirst TimeSkinsSickExtremesDrivingUncomfortableOne TimeNeedlesMongoliaRabiesBronchitisDysentery Author:Pam Houston
“I had been at Comic-Con, and I have the same manager as Bob Morley, so we ended up at a Warner Bros. party. I met Jason Rothenberg for the first time, and he's a fan of Black Sails and Shameless and some of my work, and was like, "Hey, we've been having trouble casting this part. I think you'd be perfect for it, if you'd be willing to come up and have some fun for some episodes."” IfsThinkingFirstsFunBlackPerfectPartyTroubleFansWillingMetsFirst TimeCome UpHeyManagersComicBobEpisodesSailCastingJasonShamelessBrosComic ConWarner Bros Author:Zach McGowan
“The first time I did a reading/signing thing at Cody's, the woman who did the introduction said something like that, and I wasn't the only one cringing. I remember looking out into the audience and seeing people's faces and people whispering to each other, and thinking like "Ugh, can we just cancel the whole thing? I can't go out there after she said that."” PeopleThinkingFirstsSaidI CanWholeRememberFacesReadingAudienceSeeingFirst TimeIntroductionWhisperingSigningUgh Author:Adrian Tomine
“Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The Bear." That poem impressed me so much that I memorized it. I used it for years when I taught in prisons. It's a powerful extended metaphor for what the writing life is really all about. It's a uniquely powerful poem about self-transformation, and that's what we're asking, really, beyond even our objection to the war. We're asking people to look at themselves and think about what might be possible with a little self-transformation.” PeopleThinkingWritingYearsFirstsLooksLittlesWarSelfBigsMightLife IsUsedVoicePowerfulWonderfulTaughtBearsFirst TimeTransformationAskingPrisonMetaphorImpressedWriting LifeHollowObjectionsSelf Transformation Author:Sam Hamill
“I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood because it's the first time she is, number one, free. But it's the first time somebody really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities.” ThinkingFirstsAbilityNumbersFirst TimeEleanorScholarly Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“After a couple of rehearsals and a couple of takes, Sydney Pollack says, "Come here. Why are you not nervous?" And I [say], "Do you think it would be better if I was nervous?" And he says, "No, it's just I can't understand it - how you would be first time on a set, you're acting, when he flubs his line you make up a new line. It's very interesting." It's not that I think I'm great; that's what I knew I wanted to do.” IfsThinkingFirstsI CanWould BeWantedLinesInterestingActingCoupleFirst TimeNervousVery InterestingRehearsalSydney Author:Geena Davis
“I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in the '70s that pieces I wrote would sound great the first time I listened to them and then on repeated hearings they sounded older and older until what seemed exciting and vibrant on first listening became stale.” ThinkingFirstsProblemProcessSoundPiecesListeningFirst TimeExcitingAgingHearingCriticalStaleAging Process Author:Paul Lansky
“I call myself good crazy because I am a crazy normal. But who is normal really? Are you normal? Maybe you are, but I don't think a lot of us are normal. I think a lot of us are scared to say that we are a little crazy. I'm a little crazy that is just the way it is. I look in the mirror now and I like who is looking back at me. I am comfortable in my skin for the first time in my life. I have let a wall down.” ThinkingWayFirstsLooksLittlesCrazyWallNormalComfortableFirst TimeSkinsMirrorsScaredLooking Back Author:Shane Bunting
“I think with President Obama there's going to be a discussion, because he himself is multiracial, because we have for the first time a non-white president. There's going to be talk about what does this mean? What is it? Are we in a new era?” ThinkingFirstsMeanDoePresidentWhiteFirst TimeErasDiscussionPresident ObamaMultiracialNew Era Author:Michael Emerson
“I think it [my first heartbreak] probably just taught me that you will always heal. That this too shall pass. The first time you feel that sort of pain, you think it's never going to go away. Once you do survive it, you realize you can survive anything.” ThinkingFeelsFirstsPainRealizingTaughtFirst TimeHealGoing AwayThis Too Shall Pass Author:Zoe Kravitz
“I think that you're very aware that you're shooting a 3D film for a movie that's beloved to the fan community, and that it's going to be on people's radar, and that you have to be excellent. I think it evolved over time how epic it has become. The first time we went to Comic-Con after we finished shooting I went, "oh my goodness, oh my goodness!"” PeopleThinkingFirstsFilmCommunityFansGoodnessFirst TimeFinishedComicShootingExcellentBelovedEpicRadarComic Con Author:Christine Bieselin Clark
“I think the first time I was on The David Letterman Show, he didn't quite know what to expect. I think people generally are just a little afraid.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFirstsLittlesShowsFirst TimeLetterman Author:Paul Reubens
“I think a lot more people are able to take on a design challenge than ever before. And this was true 20 years ago when the desktop publishing revolution came about that allowed people with Macintosh's at home to produce professional-looking newsletters or publications for the first time. So, there's a long march toward more democratization for design.” PeopleThinkingYearsFirstsLongHomeAbleChallengesDesignProduceRevolutionFirst TimeYears AgoMarchPublishingPublicationDemocratizationMacintoshDesktopNewslettersDesktop Publishing Author:Khoi Vinh
“I think if Jesus came for the first time, and he was 33 1/2 years old and hung out with these guys, where would he be? They'd probably be at a coffee bar getting a latte or something.” IfsThinkingYearsFirstsGuyJesusFirst TimeCoffeeBarsHungLattes Author:Michael W. Smith
“People think "The Office" was improvised, but it's all on the page. We do that because what we found is that in the early days of "The Office," we went in with it sort of 80 percent scripted and we did some things and then we improv'd and we did - you know, and it gets a laugh on the floor because it's the first time they've heard it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFirstsFoundLaughingHeardOfficePagesPercentFirst TimeDid You Know Author:Ricky Gervais
“What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.” ThinkingFirstsKindTwoYoungAchieveCoupleFirst TimeAlbumsSubtlety Author:Norah Jones
“I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events, we deal with the issues of mortality from the first time we see a dead bird as a little child.” PeopleThinkingFirstsHumansChildrenLittlesAsksReligiousHuman BeingsDealsIssuesEventsBirdFirst TimeDefinitionsMortalityAnticipateFuture Events Author:John Shelby Spong
“I think since I did Monster I really started understanding how hard it is for first time directors. I think there's a lot of great stories out there, but it's high risk.” ThinkingFirstsHardStoriesUnderstandingRiskDirectorsFirst TimeMonstersHigh Risk Author:Charlize Theron
“I think it was important for me to introduce myself as an artist for the first time because I'm very proud of my past, it's all a part of my story, but this is who I am now. This was a really important thing to have an hour special that lets them in and kind of meet me for the first time, truthfully.” ThinkingFirstsKindImportantStoriesPastArtistHoursSpecialProudFirst TimeImportant ThingsWho I AmIntroducingMy Past Author:Jamie Lynn Spears
“She [Hillary Clinton] says I know that this is the first time that one of our two major parties has ever nominated a woman, and that takes some getting used to even for me. And I think that she has to somehow figure out a way to talk about it. She doesn't like being a symbol, but in many ways, that's what tonight is about.” ThinkingKnowsWayFirstsTwoUsedPartyFiguresMajorsFirst TimeClintonSymbolsTonight Author:Tamara Keith
“Essentially I feel like all of that pressure when you're making the first of a franchise of [movies based on] books that mean so much to people that has so much attention on it, it can be quite paralyzing I think. I think a lot of that creeped in the first time around and it maybe affects the work.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFirstsMeanBookAttentionFirst TimePressure Author:Jamie Dornan
“I do think it [the Waitress] speaks in a positive way for women and it was surprising for me to see it for the first time as a movie all put together with music. I really liked it a lot.” ThinkingWayFirstsTogetherSpeakFirst TimeSurprisingWaitress Author:Keri Russell
“I think the first time I realized I was actually acting was during Felicity. Before that, I was just going along for the ride.” ThinkingFirstsActingFirst TimeI RealizedFelicityAlong For The Ride Author:Keri Russell
“An eye-opening moment in my life, a very defining moment, was the first time I met Susan Sarandon [before shooting Thelma & Louise]. We were going to meet, just Ridley [Scott] and Susan and I, to go through the script and see if we had any thoughts or ideas. I was reading the script, and in the most girly way possible, meaning that if it was a line that could change or something different I'd like to see, I would think about each one and say, "Well, this one can wait till the set because I don't want to bring up too many things."” IfsThinkingWayWantFirstsWellsIdeasDifferentMomentsEyeReadingWaitingLinesMetsFirst TimeScriptsOpeningShootingDefiningGirlyEye OpeningDefining Moments Author:Geena Davis
“It might be the first time - certainly the first time in my lifetime that a major policy address by a Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump so heavily relied on data and studies from a labor-union-backed think tank.” ThinkingFirstsMightStudyPolicyTrumpRepublicanMajorsFirst TimeLaborUnionsLifetimeDataPresidentialAddressesTanksLabor Union Author:Avik Roy
“Like the guy I was dating. White, liberal, educated. I went to meet his family and I think that they probably didn't know they had a problem with it until he walked in with me. And they definitely had issues. Mom had issues with it. Could not, didn't want to see her son. And I don't think she had anything against me. But it was about her son bringing me home. And I felt that for the first time. I was like, 'Wow, that's deep.' It's really simple: I don't fit their picture.” ThinkingKnowsWantFirstsProblemHomeGuyFeltSimpleWhiteIssuesSonMomFitFirst TimeDatingEducatedWow Author:Sanaa Lathan
“Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.” ThinkingShouldWritingFirstsWellsReasonPlayActivityFirst TimeTennisAthletic Author:Natalie Goldberg
“There are some women, we have to admit this, there's some women who support Hillary Clinton simply because they think it's great that a woman might be elected president for the first time.” ThinkingFirstsMightPresidentSupportFirst TimeClinton Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think that tri [to Ram Bahadur Bomjon] was the first time I'd even seen something that made me think, or really feel: "Ah, I don't know what's really going on in the world - I think I do, and it feels like I do, but whatever is really going on is, de facto, beyond the scope of my comprehension - the best we can do is look for hints." I'd known that intellectually before but that was the first time I really believed it viscerally.” ThinkingKnowsWorldFeelsFirstsLooksMadeCan DoKnownFirst TimeScopeHintsComprehensionRams Author:George Saunders
“Before I even knew what stand up was, I tried to make people laugh at school because that was how I made friends, so I think that's how I got drawn into comedy and obviously I was just some kid at school being silly, so the first time I saw a professional comedian and how smooth and funny the person was I totally got into standup and I would say obviously Richard Pryor was the guy. He's the greatest of all time and then George Carlin, Sam Kinison, Bill Cosby. It's so weird to bring up his name now but leaving out his off-stage antics... you could learn a lot from him.” PeopleThinkingFirstsPersonsMadeKidsSchoolGuyNamesLaughingSawsComedyStageFirst TimeBillsLeavingSillyAll TimeComedianSmoothMaking People LaughBeing SillyAntics Author:Bill Burr
“I would not want to forget the first time I read The Lord of the Rings. I would never want to forget that! That was so magical to me, and that was a real eye-opening experience. I was probably 11 when I read that and already a reader, but I think that book really showed me how you can be transported and how your imagination can take you to a whole other place.” ThinkingWantFirstsBookRealWholeEyeImaginationForgetLordReaderFirst TimeRingsOpeningEye OpeningReal Eyes Author:Sharon Cameron
“I do think that as I said before the canvas of action sequences and the way in which the sequences unfurl will be very unique and will be different than any movie we've made before, and that's what makes it interesting, what makes it [Doctor Strange] special, and what makes it worth pursuing, and worth bringing to life for the first time.” ThinkingWayFirstsMadeSaidDifferentActionInterestingSpecialStrangeUniqueFirst TimeDoctorsCanvasSequence Author:Kevin Feige
“Lifting the Stanley Cup for the first time. There's nothing like it. It's the greatest story. In my era, they used to say you couldn't be a superstar without winning one. I remember thinking when I lifted it: "Now they can't say that about me."” ThinkingFirstsStoriesRememberUsedWinningFirst TimeCupsErasLiftingSuperstarStanleyStanley Cup Author:Wayne Gretzky
“I think modeling is interesting, it's obviously nice to take on a character and go through the process. I'm very lucky that I've been able to do that but I think the challenges that come with the responsibility of art directing something is something that appeals to me. I've done it before in collaboration with other people but it's the first time someone's literally handed it over and been like, "What do you want?" It was really fun to kind of dream up a concept and then execute it with all my friends.” PeopleThinkingWantFirstsKindArtDoneCharacterDreamAbleFunProcessChallengesInterestingResponsibilityNiceLuckyConceptsMy FriendsFirst TimeAppealsCollaborationModeling Author:Alexa Chung
“I think the first time [Dre] did [biten me]. We cried together. I assumed he did. I assumed that would be the first and last time. I learned that it wasn't.” ThinkingFirstsWould BeTogetherLastsFirst TimeCriedLast TimeFirsts And Lasts Author:Michel'le
“I loved Road Warrior the first time. I saw The Road Warrior before I saw Mad Max, you know, I saw it in reverse order. And so I was, I've always been a fan of George Miller. This sequence I think got storyboarded after Fury Road came out I think as I recall. So I think, you know, we were inspired [making Maora].” ThinkingKnowsFirstsOrderSawsFansFirst TimeMadInspiredWarriorRecallsReverseSequenceFuryMaxMad Max Author:John Musker
“At the Rose bowl, when America was playing Mexico, and those that live in this country who have come here from Mexico booed the United States - there's a huge problem with that. This is not the first time that this has happened and I think that, that is because in the United States the cultural Marxist ideas of separating people into different racial groups.” PeopleThinkingFirstsIdeasDifferentCountryStatesProblemAmericaUnitedUnited StatesHappenedGroupsHugeFirst TimeRoseMexicoBowlsMarxistSeparating Author:Andrew Breitbart
“Honestly I think it was gradual from the first time I came. It's been a gradual thing as far as audience and response wise. I feel like I was conditioned for this type of impact.” ThinkingFeelsFirstsAudienceWiseTypeFirst TimeImpactResponseHonestly Author:Ab-Soul
“Jiyong hyung's mind can go wild and think a lot of things. This was my first time writing my own lyrics so I only thought about myself, but Jiyong hyung won't do that. He'll think, 'Ah, this type of rap suits T.O.P., this part suits Seungri.' That's how he writes lyrics, but I can't do that yet.” ThinkingWritingMindFirstsI CanMy OwnTypeFirst TimeRapSuits Author:Seungri
“That was an interesting thing I learned I think the first time I did a late night show or something. It was like, "Oh, this is for the camera and a performance that you're giving to the people at home."” PeopleThinkingGivingFirstsShowsHomeNightInterestingLateFirst TimePerformancesCamerasInteresting ThingsLate Night Author:John Mulaney
“When the ACLU took my case and we got a ruling I think, for the first time, they could - the Congress could put out the report internally but they couldn't put it out at taxpayers' expense around the country. And I felt odd about that because I, in a way, I was interfering with free speech, but then, you can't always win.” ThinkingWayFirstsCountryWinningFeltCasesSpeechFirst TimeCongressOddReportsExpensesFree SpeechInterfereRulingTaxpayers Author:Nat Hentoff
“It's the first time in U.S. history a presidential candidate has not revealed his tax returns, or a president.I think that the poll ratings are in the gutter right now, right? Donald Trump's, even before he's been inugurated.” ThinkingFirstsPresidentReturnTrumpRight NowTaxesFirst TimePresidentialCandidatesPollsRatingPresidential CandidateGuttersTax Returns Author:Katrina vanden Heuvel
“[The World Series] introduced me for the first time to a team with a lot of black players. Detroit had about three of them: I think it was Willie Horton, Gates Brown, and Earl Wilson - might have been one or two more in '68.” ThinkingWorldFirstsHas BeensTwoMightThreeBlackPlayerTeamFirst TimeSeriesBrownGatesMight Have BeenDetroitWilsonWorld Series Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“Donald Trump is going to be onstage introducing his wife, Melania, so I think this is the first time a presidential nominee has been onstage twice during one convention, and it probably is only the first of many firsts we will record for The Donald during these next few days.” ThinkingFirstsHas BeensNextRecordsWifeTrumpFirst TimePresidentialConventionsIntroducing Author:Mark Colvin
“It's funny when people don't know you and they meet you for the first time and think you're so great. When fans know you for more than three or four times the magic is gone.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFirstsThreeGoneFourMagicFansFirst Time Author:Andy Warhol
“I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.” ThinkingShouldYearsFirstsFiveDrugWasteResourcesFirst TimeFive YearsJailOffenders Author:Charles Schumer
“I think that [Eddie Murphy's famous "White Like Me"] is probably the first time I thought, "Oh. Being black is different. That is a totally different experience."” ThinkingFirstsDifferentBlackWhiteFirst TimeLike MeMurphyDifferent Experiences Author:Neal Brennan
“I saw the first one [video with Hans Rosling ] when he did - I think it was his first one - in 2006, a TED Talk. And for the first time in my life, I thought here's someone who can take statistics that most people regard as dull and boring and bring it alive.” PeopleThinkingFirstsSawsAliveFirst TimeRegardBoringVideoDullStatisticsTed Talks Author:Keith Devlin