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“Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.”

Knows Men Firsts Sometimes Done Jobs Choices Actors Games Directors First Time Jaded Ugh

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“My first pilot gig; in fact my first job in television; was 'Freaks and Geeks,' and the experience of directing that pilot was probably the single most formative of my directing life.”

Firsts Facts Jobs Television Freak Pilots Geek Gigs

Author:Jake Kasdan

“The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.”

Way Firsts School Technology Students Internet Easier Cost Benefits Presses Analysis Printing Great Education Printing Press Cost Benefit Analysis

Author:John Katzman

“Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.”

Firsts Actors Language Streets Expression Dancer Performers Mime Street Performers

Author:Denis Lavant

“Actors were the first people to accept me.”

People Firsts Actors Accepting Accept Me

Author:Michael Lindsay-Hogg

“When we first put 'Let It Be' out, I had to cut out a lot of stuff that I really like and wanted to stay in there. The stuff in the new DVD has a lot of the stuff that had to be cut out. So for me, it's like the egg is now complete.”

Firsts Wanted Stuff Cutting Eggs Dvds

Author:Michael Lindsay-Hogg

“It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.”

Knows Writing Firsts Song Heard

Author:Rico Love

“Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.”

Firsts Drug Scientist Hypothesis Eighty

Book:Challenges

Source: Challenges

“I want to be the first Pakistani, like some of our counterparts in India, to really go out and show that we Pakistanis can even be successful outside Pakistan.”

Want Firsts Shows Successful India Being Successful Pakistan Counterparts

Author:Mian Muhammad Mansha

“It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.”

Years Firsts Company Four Six Democratic Senate Slam Barbara

Author:Ellen Malcolm

“When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, "My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.”

Thinking Firsts Left Attitude Careers Office University Dear Boards Interviews Private Sector

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.”

Firsts Said Country States Names Band Originals Edges Clubs Stuck Alabama

Author:Randy Owen

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

“Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.”

Firsts Today Sentences Newspapers Magazines Restaurants Expensive

Author:Masa Takayama

“I am the princess of G.O.O.D. Music, the first lady of G.O.O.D. Music, the baby of G.O.O.D. Music. I'm kinda the spoiled brat right now. I could get whatever I want.”

Want Firsts Baby Right Now Princess Spoiled First Lady Brat Spoiled Brat

Author:Teyana

“It's through working with a lot of first-time directors that I realized that people learn on their feet. Everybody works on something for a different reason. Everybody has got something new to learn on these sets, and you don't have to know everything, the second you start.”

People Knows Firsts Different Reason Feet Directors First Time I Realized Something New

Author:Jess Weixler

“What I see are people who want affordable energy. They want strong environmental standards - they want a lot of things - but first and foremost they want affordable energy. And if you want affordable energy, you want oil, gas and coal.”

People Ifs Want Firsts Energy Strong Standards Environmental Oil Gas Coal Affordable

Author:John S. Watson

“First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.”

Firsts Energy Pay Company Share Industry Higher Taxes Percent Fairs Rate Currents Oil Debate Despite Gas Fair Share Oil And Gas

Author:John S. Watson

“I used to pride myself on being the first in the office in the morning and one of the last to leave at night. Now, that's so dated: It's not about effort, it's about outcomes.”

Firsts Lasts Used Night Effort Morning Pride Office Outcomes

Author:Maynard Webb

“My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job.”

Firsts Real Shows Jobs Paid Hey Showbiz Nickelodeon

Author:Graham Yost

“I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.”

Want Firsts Hands Next President Kings Gun Killing Capitalist

Author:Giuseppe Zangara

“Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other kids play nice and that she makes friends.”

World Firsts Children Book Play Kids Nice Our Children Your Children Kindergarten

Author:Mitchell Zuckoff

“We've suffered a "Ponzification" of the economy in recent years, as bubbles have built up and then burst, and each time we act as though it's the first time.”

Years Firsts Economy First Time Built Bubbles

Author:Mitchell Zuckoff

“To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.”

Needs Firsts Art Community Privilege Burden Privacy Constructs Family Love

Book:The Magic Will: Stories & Essays

Source: The Magic Will: Stories & Essays

“From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.”

Firsts School Common Sun Generations Students High School Awe Heroism Affliction My Generation Sun Also Rises

Book:Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir

Source: Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir

“Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.”

World Firsts States America Community United United States Century Japan United States Of America Treaties Amity Concluding

Author:Shigeru Yoshida

“Brands are useful ways of short-handing practically anything - look at the way Tom Wolfe first used brand name lists to sharpen up a character and a situation. Look at the most brand-referenced novel, Bret Easton Ellis's 'Glamorama.”

Way Firsts Looks Character Used Names Situation Novel Lists Brands Toms Brand Names

Author:Peter York

“Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso Bongo' of 1959, with Cliff Richard as Bongo Herbert and Laurence Harvey as his manager. The key components were cast as X parts gay, X parts Jewish and triple X opportunistic.”

Firsts Character Film Keys Gay Musical Casts Pops British Managers Fixed Dramatic Components Cliffs Harvey Bongos

Author:Peter York

“Haagen-Dazs (a clever Scandi-sounding name invented by Americans in 1961) was bought for its Euro-sounding sophistication by the kind of Americans who first bought those Mercs and Beemers, while Ben & Jerry's (now owned by Unilever) brought a post-hippy sensibility to bear. Buyers saw the brand as saying 'all-natural, organic and Fairtrade.”

Firsts Kind Names Natural Saws Bears Clever Brands Posts Sensibility Jerry Euro Sophistication Buyers

Author:Peter York

“Have you got a Beemer, an Audi, a Saab or a Volvo that replaced a Ford, Vauxhall, Rover or Nissan? Many Brits have. Your first Beemer. A particularly nice smell of leather. Something rather plain but satisfactory about the interior. And that lovely enamel wotsit in the middle of the steering wheel. A moment of quiet 'because I'm worth it' pride.”

Firsts Moments Nice Middle Pride Quiet Smell Lovely Wheels Replaced Worth It Interiors Leather Steering Brits Volvo Audi

Author:Peter York

“I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists of the 19th century and study life. I am a Tom Wolfe fan of the first order.”

Firsts Order Study Fans Century Journalism Novelists Toms 19th Century Great French Study Life

Author:Peter York

“The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.”

Ifs Firsts Demand

Author:Kinky Friedman

“We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.”

Firsts Winning Race Bottom Execution Funding Mississippi Public Education

Author:Kinky Friedman

“For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.”

Trying Years Firsts Industry Fats Pharmaceutical Food Industry Pharmaceutical Industry

Author:Pierre Dukan

“I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.”

Firsts Husband Shadow My Family My Husband

Author:Martha Wainwright

“You know, people always ask me how I describe my music. First of all I tell them that's their job and then that also one day I hope to have things referred to as Martha Wainwright -esque.”

People Knows Firsts Jobs Asks One Day Ask Me

Author:Martha Wainwright

“Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.”

People Firsts Sometimes Careers Albums

Author:Peter Asher

“I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.”

Firsts Father Born Week Son Males Pounds Hospitals Twins Philadelphia Premature Pennsylvania

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.”

Firsts School Sports Careers College Paper Pages High School Newspapers Editors Unusual Editorials

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.”

Firsts Song Inspire Chords Progression

Author:Black Francis

“I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.”

People Knows Firsts Three Names Millions Ten First Time Shame Sells Albums Copies

Author:Gerry Beckley

“When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.”

Firsts Numbers Governors Telephones

Author:Kinky Friedman

“In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.”

Firsts Universe Process Cases Evolution Civilization Highest First Time Carrie Globes Advent Ascent

Author:James Henry Breasted

“The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.”

Men Firsts He Man Ancient Historian

Book:The Oriental Institute

Source: The Oriental Institute

“I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.”

Firsts Shows Fun Comedy Comedy Shows

Author:Steve Burton

“I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently, primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency, I was in charge of the files she kept on the Travel Office.”

Firsts Running House White Office Enjoyed Agency White House Files First Lady

Author:Joseph Force Crater

“Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.”

Firsts Lasts Lost Five Week Son Six Letters

Author:Dick Ebersol

“I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to the speaker of the House, I knew the issues and understood state government. But what I found out the hard way is that you can know all the ins and outs but people want to know you, your family.”

People Knows Way Want Firsts Hard States Government Found House Race Issues Understood Chiefs Primaries Ran Our Family Speakers Accused State Government Hard Way

Author:Jim Edgar

“When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.”

Firsts Play Character Desire Acting Comedy Theater Musical Tragic Opera Musical Theater

Author:Leslie Easterbrook

“Is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?”

Thinking Knows Firsts Wells Running Greed China Russia

Author:Milton Friedman

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