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“My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.”

Thinking Firsts Would Be Jobs Moving Actors Found Father Left Half Stupid Amount Waiter

Author:Alfred Molina

“The stage is my first love.”

Firsts Stage First Love

Author:Anthony Mackie

“I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!”

Firsts Stills Kids Girl Five Achieve Clever Very Clever

Author:Anthony Minghella

“You have to be very brave in that first writing session.”

Writing Firsts Brave Session

Author:Barry Mann

“You know how it is. Every time you kiss someone else, in a way you always remember that very first time.”

Knows Way Firsts Remember Know How Kissing First Time Kissing Someone

Author:Breckin Meyer

“To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.”

Giving Firsts Voice Honor First Time Bells

Author:Brittany Murphy

“I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she was blonde, she was free and she was fun.”

Firsts Fun Grew Grew Up France Exposure Blonde American Woman Barbie Alps

Author:Catherine Malandrino

“Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.”

Writing Firsts Book Voice Interesting Vary

Author:China Mieville

“My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.”

Firsts Hard Jobs Focus Campaigns Obligation

Author:Claire McCaskill

“First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how they feel about it. Which means I'm interested in romance fiction. I was drawn to it, as both a reader and a writer, at the very beginning of my career. It's my kind of storytelling.”

People Feels Firsts Kind Mean Romance Fiction Careers Reader Storytelling Fascinated Storyteller

Author:Debbie Macomber

“I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.”

World Firsts Play My Family Guitar Wide Profession Family And Friends

Author:Don McLean

“I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.”

Men Writing Firsts Stories Wanted Stuff Crime New York Grew Late Grew Up Bunch Noir Tights Fritz Lang

Author:Frank Miller

“The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.”

Ifs Firsts Play Feelings Courses Events First Time Very Good Finished Sunday Tucson

Author:Gary McCord

“What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.”

Knows Firsts Hands Stuff Rings Boxing Gossip Salt Grain Mike Tyson Grain Of Salt Boxing Ring

Author:Gerald McRaney

“I created a show called 'Crash' for Starz, which was their first original drama, and that was not a good experience. I had a great time working with the cast and crew, but it was a young network and an intrusive studio, and to be honest I didn't really enjoy the movie 'Crash.”

Firsts Shows Young Enjoy Honest Drama Originals Casts Studios Being Honest Crash Crew Great Times Had A Great Time Good Experiences

Author:Glen Mazzara

“The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.”

Trying Firsts Sound Like You Band First Time Boxes Spending Intense Checks Wow Initials Narcotics

Author:Ian MacKaye

“As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.”

Firsts Ideas Grows Company Phones Employee Employed Cellular Starting Up Cellular Phones

Author:Jack Markell

“The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.”

Years Firsts Night Shooting Location

Author:James MacArthur

“First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.”

Knows Firsts Persons Tools Narrative First Person First Person Narrative

Author:James McBride

“I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.”

Ifs Years Firsts Looks Stories Today Enjoy Sides Records Heard Huge Elements Impact West Seven Eight West Side West Side Story

Author:Steve Vai

“It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.”

People Way Years Firsts Mistake Valuable Grades

Author:Tom Verlaine

“The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.”

People Firsts Hell Mets First Time Including Laundromats

Author:Tom Verlaine

“In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.”

Years Firsts Jobs Lasts Father New York Engineers Reserves Senior Maintenance Great Job Federal Reserve Working Life

Author:Tony Visconti

“The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.”

Firsts Novel Finished Opening Trilogies Bayou

Author:Daniel Woodrell

“I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey.”

“I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.”

Firsts Art Light Used Night Evil Felt Walks Sun Streets Empty London Dawn Apocalypse Zombie All Night Residents Imitating Zombie Apocalypse Up All Night Empty Streets Resident Evil

Author:Edgar Wright

“Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.”

Firsts Believe Important Film Wish Pride Cop Happy Endings Fulfilment

Author:Joe Wright

“Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.”

Firsts Seems Born Natural Caves Puzzled

Book:Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals

Source: Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals

“My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.”

Firsts Mother Father Born Generations Hollywood Raised Greek Native Los Angeles Born And Raised Bulgarians

Author:Rita Wilson

“The first thing you need to run for President is a budget of around $20 million dollars a day.”

Needs Firsts Running President Millions Dollars Budgets Million Dollars

Author:S. Robson Walton

“Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.”

Firsts Roles Proud

Author:Sam Waterston

“When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.”

Firsts Made Parent Albums Indication

Author:Trisha Yearwood

“I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.”

People Firsts States Interest Policy Partners Russia Rhetoric Strategic Ukrainian

Author:Viktor Yanukovych

“Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.”

Firsts Memories Chance Growing Up Taken Growing Brother Wave My Brother Shore Cheer Surfing Catching Sydney Best Memories

Author:Markus Zusak

“The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.”

“When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.”

Thinking Firsts Film Next Given Watches Scene Moved Etc

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.”

Feels Firsts Clock Necks

Author:Flavor Flav

“First of all, Mets fans despise me.”

Firsts Fans Mets Despise Mets Fans

Author:Adam Rubin

“If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Character Feelings Memories Loss Struggle Meditation Willing Rate Corruption Settling Abundance Vague Dissatisfaction Provocative Zimbabwe Specifics

Author:Jabari Asim

“My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism.”

Knows Writing Firsts Real Wanted Jobs Rocks Stones Bunch Journalism Rolling Rock And Roll Rolling Stones Investigative Journalism

Author:Tim Cahill

“My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind.”

Years Mind Firsts Book Dream Guy Three Ten Buried Three Years Killers Curves This Guy Serials Serial Killer Sewers

Author:Tim Cahill

“If you're depressed and called Morgan spend the first half of the day in Germany for some positive affirmation.”

Ifs Firsts Half Germany Affirmation Positive Affirmations

Author:Milton Jones

“It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.”

Firsts Happiness Desire Easier

Book:Practical Morality; Or, A Guide to Men and Manners: Consisting of Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son. To which is Added, a Supplement Containing Extracts from Various Books, Recommended by Lord Chesterfield to Mr. Stanhope. Together with the Polite Philosopher; Or, An Essay on the Art which Makes a Man Hapopy in Himself, and Agreeable to Others; Dr. Blair's Advice to Youth; Dr. Fordyce on Honour as a Principle; Lord Burghley's Ten Percepts to His Son; Dr. Franklin's Way to Wealth; and Pope's Universal Prayer

Source: Practical Morality; Or, A Guide to Men and Manners: Consisting of Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son. To which is Added, a Supplement Containing Extracts from Various Books, Recommended by Lord Chesterfield to Mr. Stanhope. Together with the Polite Philosopher; Or, An Essay on the Art which Makes a Man Hapopy in Himself, and Agreeable to Others; Dr. Blair's Advice to Youth; Dr. Fordyce on Honour as a Principle; Lord Burghley's Ten Percepts to His Son; Dr. Franklin's Way to Wealth; and Pope's Universal Prayer

“Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite. The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid. Every minute spent on not-quite-right code counts as interest on that debt. Entire engineering organizations can be brought to a standstill under the debt load of an unconsolidated implementation, object-oriented or otherwise.”

Firsts Littles Long Interest Minutes Danger Objects Development First Time Organization Paid Debt Speed Code Engineering Load Implementation Shipping Standstill

Author:Ward Cunningham

“Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.”

Firsts Wells Wanted First Time

Author:Felix Baumgartner

“Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's head. Mine was First Things.”

Firsts Young Imagine Mines Intellectual Magazines Articles Essays Young Writers

Author:Ross Douthat

“If you truly love someone, don't waste your time finding reasons to hate them. Spend it remembering why you love them in the first place.”

Ifs Firsts Reason Remember Hate Waste Findings Love Someone Don't Waste Your Time If You Truly Love Someone

Author:Jinxx

“Shoot first, ask questions last. That's how these so called gangsta's last.”

Firsts Lasts Asks Gangsta

Author:Waka Flocka Flame

“The first mistake in public business is the going into it.”

Firsts Political Politics Business Mistake

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“As the Nazi regime developed over the years, the whole structure of decision-making was changed. At first there were laws. Then there were decrees implementing laws. Then a law was made saying, ‘There shall be no laws.’ Then there were orders and directives that were written down, but still published in ministerial gazettes. Then there was government by announcement; orders appeared in newspapers. Then there were the quiet orders, the orders that were not published, that were within the bureaucracy, that were oral. And finally, there were no orders at all. Everybody knew what he had to do.”

Years Firsts Made Stills Whole Government Law Order Decision Written Changed Quiet Structure Newspapers Decision Making Regimes Nazi Bureaucracy Decree Announcements Implementing

Author:Raul Hilberg