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“My first book, Fast Forward, was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture of materialism and the cult of celebrity, and I've often felt the reason my work has an audience in the UK is because it's everything the British love to hate about the Americans.”

Firsts Book Reason Kids Hate Culture Felt Audience Growing Up Growing Shadow Hollywood British Materialism Affected Cult Love Hate

Author:Lauren Greenfield

“When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.”

Firsts Persons Bigs Photography Cameras Moved Worried Flash Filmmaking Assistants

Author:Lauren Greenfield

“When I was about 12 and first started wearing lipstick, my dad would ask, 'Are you wearing makeup?' I would say back, 'You're wearing more makeup there than I am!”

Firsts Asks Dad My Dad Makeup Lipstick Wearing Makeup

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.”

Firsts Humans Law Perfect Construction Execution Remarks

Author:Thomas Jordan Jarvis

“If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.”

Ifs Firsts Weapons Including International Nuclear Iran Anxious Nuclear Weapons Conferences Israeli

Author:Bruce Kent

“When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Party Directors First Time Boston Symphony Johnson

Author:Erich Leinsdorf

“I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing.”

Thinking Firsts Play Community Levels

Author:Lavrenti Lopes

“What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.”

Firsts Looks Kind Art Artist Pieces Emotional Intellectual First Time Combination Something New

Author:Cheech Marin

“My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.”

Firsts Children Two Dream Effort Study Areas Pilots Parallels Pursued Astronomers

Author:Claude Nicollier

“I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.”

Thinking Firsts Two Play Shows Months Involved Six Models Theater Males Forty Plastic Six Months Casting

Author:Austin Peck

“I want to be a starter again, I would really enjoy playing for the Phillies again, but my first consideration in making my decision is finding a circumstance that is right for me. I want to play for the Phillies again, but I also wouldn't mind joining a team I've never played with before.”

Want Mind Firsts Play Enjoy Decision Team Circumstances Findings Consideration Joining Starters

Author:Chan Ho Park

“RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'When do you lose your humanity?”

Ifs Firsts Humanity Social Loses Concepts Criticism Brilliant Fantastic Robocop

Author:Jose Padilha

“He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.”

Firsts Term Responsibility Economy Successful Economic Customers Corporations Being Successful Ethical Framework Shareholders

Author:Lee R. Raymond

“The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!”

Thinking Firsts Band Stranger

Author:Noel Redding

“When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's something I'm gonna' learn here? If I feel like it's something I've done before, then what's the incentive for me to do it?”

Ifs Feels Firsts Done Character Scripts Interaction Incentives

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“First, our focus on security is on the infrastructure itself. So it is all about how you protect the network, the device, and the application that is riding on the server.”

Firsts Focus Security Protect Devices Application Riding Infrastructure Server

Author:John W. Thompson

“I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.”

People Ifs Firsts Made Invention Plastic Surgery Plastic Surgery New Inventions

Author:Alanna Ubach

“On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers.”

Firsts Father Names Born Memories Walks Son Following Hills Forefathers Memory Of My Father

Author:Immanuel Velikovsky

“My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.”

Firsts Father Names Walks Known Middle Chosen Hills Ancestor Solitary Chapters Verses Selected

Author:Immanuel Velikovsky

“Sometimes I wish the girl would make the first move.”

Firsts Sometimes Moving Girl Wish

Author:Devon Werkheiser

“Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest of my life.”

Firsts Enough Passion Acting Lucky

Author:Devon Werkheiser

“I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.”

Firsts Littles Able Felt Boys Watches Records Heard Tables My Favorite Boxes Things To Do Little Boys Favorites Things

Author:Narada Michael Walden

“The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.”

People Firsts Littles Saws Genes

Author:Roy Wood

“I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job.”

Years Firsts Play Wanted Jobs Games Winning Tennis

Author:Gabriela Sabatini

“I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo where I came from. Our first mission was to go and build a new hospital. Our next mission was to build a school.”

People Firsts School Purpose Next Conditions Foundation Democratic Missions Hospitals Republic Continents Improving Congo African Continent Democratic Republic Living Conditions

Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.”

Want Firsts Practice Skills Texas Leadership Skills

Author:James R. Thompson

“I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.”

Should Firsts Believe Force I Believe Social Century Majors Concern Twenties Environmental Corporations Very Strong

Author:Bill Ford

“THE FIRST STEP in changing the future is Desire, that is, define your objective - know definitely what you want. SECOND: construct an event which you believe you would encounter following the fulfillment of your desire - an event which implies fulfillment of your desire - something which will have the action of Self predominant.”

Knows Want Firsts Believe Self Action Desire Steps Events Following What You Want Objectives Fulfillment Encounters First Steps Constructs

Book:The Neville Goddard Collection

Source: The Neville Goddard Collection

“Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.”

Men Firsts Humans Has Beens Hands Steps Progress Heard Majority Possession Valuable Stores Destroyed Abyss Seekers Every Step Stirring Human Progress Valuable Things Truth Seekers

Author:H. L. Mencken

“One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.”

Firsts Book Home Running Kissing Enjoyment Home Run

Book:Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman

Source: Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman

“For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted.”

Firsts Children Persons Trust Trusted

Author:Robert Breault

“All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.”

Should Firsts All Things Toil

Author:Alfred the Great

“God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.”

Firsts Repentance Repent

Author:Seneca the Younger

“If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.”

Ifs Firsts Wish Secret Secrecy

Author:Seneca the Younger

“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”

Love Firsts Truth Friendship Honor Piety Friend Love

Book:Aristotle: Introductory Readings

Source: Aristotle: Introductory Readings

“The first great law is to obey.”

Firsts Law Obedience

Book:Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life

Source: Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life

“Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.”

Years Firsts Humans Stills Two Facts Dies Born Air Creatures Eternal England Twenties Britain Ireland Seventies Foreigners Being Irish Ireland And The Irish

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.”

Firsts Eye Recognition Spotlight

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?”

Firsts May Stills Song Sky Color Spring Wings Speed Flight Southern Chill Blast Hue Bluebird

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.”

Firsts Wells Two Term Two Things Quarrels Contending

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.”

Firsts Philosophy Faculty Exam Vienna Munich Zoology Funny Exam

Author:Karl von Frisch

“The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth from afar. For the first time in the history of humanity, we were able to see our planet for what it really is.”

Firsts Looks Able Earth Humanity Space Views Planets Moon First Time Program Our Planet Spaceships Afar Space Program Fallouts

Author:Theodore Hesburgh

“We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.”

Firsts Ideas Order Identity Counterfeit Self Identity

Author:Andre Gide

“The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.”

Firsts Doe Art Strength Art Is Supreme Subtle Strongest

Author:Andre Gide

“The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.”

Firsts Art Reality Art Is Impression Works Of Art First Impression Otherness

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.”

Giving Firsts Made Light Night Names Water Quality Teach Spring Bigger Give Me Astronomy Thee Pits Day And Night Barren Fertile Tempest Berries Isle Gonzalo From Tempest Caliban

Book:Four Late Plays

Source: Four Late Plays

“I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.”

Should Firsts Teach Taught Offers Beggar Beggary

Author:William Shakespeare

“In a free society, every opportunity comes with three obligations. First, you must seize it. You must mold it into a work that brings value to others. Second, you must live it. Opportunity is nurtured only by action. Third, you must defend the freedom to pursue opportunities. You must embrace these three obligations as if the future of the United States depended on it. In fact, it does.”

Ifs Firsts Doe States Facts Action Values Three Opportunity Work United United States Hard Work Thirds Embrace Obligation Pursue Mold Free Society

Author:Roberto Goizueta

“Worship is first and foremost for His benefit, not ours, though it is marvelous to discover that in giving Him pleasure, we ourselves enter into what can become our richest and most wholesome experience in life.”

Giving Firsts Pleasure Benefits Worship Marvelous

Author:Lamar Boschman

“Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first - not through intellectual understanding. The intellect works best in service to our intuition, our inner guidance, soul, God or higher power - whichever term we choose for the spiritual energy that animates life.”

Firsts Soul Feelings Body Spiritual Spirituality Energy Understanding Term Higher Intellectual Intuition Intellect Guidance Higher Power Spiritual Awareness Spiritual Energy

Author:Christiane Northrup

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