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“I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.”

Firsts Persons Parent Happened College Dad Band My Family My Dad Singers Harvard First Person

Author:Dean Norris

“I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.”

Ifs Firsts Bigs Remember Growing Up Growing Happened Heard Subjects Jokes Jersey

Author:Oscar Nunez

“When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.”

Firsts Dream Age Desire Left Stars Shining Iran Shining Star Shining Down

Author:Azar Nafisi

“The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.”

Firsts Shows Saws Hair Broadway Broadway Shows

Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.”

Way Firsts Shows Mines Materials Happenings First Time New Things Spontaneous

Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.”

Writing Firsts Home Used Adventure Computer Atoms Bubbles Teens Primitive Acorns

Author:Graham Nelson

“When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.”

Firsts Made Ordinary Appearance Theatre Numbered Days

Author:Ivor Novello

“It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I’ve done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they’re always poems first.”

Writing Firsts Long Art Done Enough Song Painting Long Time Pursue Enough Time Had Enough

Author:Jason Newsted

“To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.”

Should Firsts Wells Looks Kind Song Insight Pops Plenty Pop Song

Author:Jason Newsted

“I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.”

Firsts Heard Ten First Time Nine Santa Santa Claus

Author:Joe Nichols

“My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.”

Firsts Jobs Acting Paid Kevin

Author:Judd Nelson

“I need to say how I feel.aIf you were a political person before, and you just happened into a movie, to stop being a political person makes no sense. I always laugh and say, 'Dudes, if I have to choose, I'm a political person first. I would never do another movie again and be completely happy.' I need to say how I feel.”

Ifs Needs Feels Firsts Persons Political Laughing Happened

Author:Kathy Najimy

“I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Style Call Me Impressionists

Author:LeRoy Neiman

“Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.”

“My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.”

Firsts Bigs Eye Father Sound Records Player Listening Grew Band Grew Up Ears Jazz Caught Brown Illinois Tenors Coltrane Brownies

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“Hopefully, if I have done my job right, people will want to know and see more! There is certainly plenty more to tell. I would love to be part of that process of expanding on the lore that makes up Warcraft, but it will all depend on what you, the audience, think of our first film!”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Firsts Done Jobs Film Process Audience Depends Plenty Hopefully Expanding

Author:Duncan Jones

“I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.”

Firsts Seasons Get Up Shameless

Author:Navid Negahban

“It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.”

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Author:Nichelle Nichols

“The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.”

Firsts Lines Effort Defense Injury Involving Prevention

Author:Richard Neal

“My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.”

Way Firsts Psychology Fields Economics Experiments Undertakings

Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.”

Writing Firsts Has Beens Book Writing Poetry

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.”

Firsts Games Roles Hunger Auditions

Author:Dayo Okeniyi

“I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.”

Years Firsts Hard School High School Shy Many Friends

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.”

Thinking Want Firsts Littles Girl Loses Good Things Shy

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after about two minutes, when the solid rocket boosters separated, the ride got a lot smoother.”

Firsts Two Light Half Minutes Vibrations Rockets

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.”

Men Firsts Eye Remember Poverty Hero Feminist Teenager Discovering

Author:Frances O'Grady

“I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.”

Knows Firsts Singing Seasons Radio Studios

Author:Frank Ocean

“The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.”

People Writing Years Firsts Jobs Artist Song Half Four Claims Studios Sandwiches Eleven Writing Songs Subway Half A Year Processors

Author:Frank Ocean

“My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.”

Firsts Might Wanted Waiting Roles Dad My Dad Disappointment Auditions

Author:Haley Joel Osment

“If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Believe Problem I Believe Stuff Dad Decided My Dad Sober

Author:Jack Osbourne

“It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.”

Writing Firsts Wanted Stuff Steps Originals First Steps Veins Misfits

Author:Gerald Caiafa

“Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Art I Can School Film Careers Yeah Stem Stumbling

Author:Karen O

“After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.”

Firsts Children Born Married Handicapped Mentally Handicapped

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.”

Firsts Two Desire President Victory Claims Congress Agendas Ingredients Lacking Mandates Andrew Prerogative Landslides

Author:Ron Fournier

“Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.”

Firsts Eye Memories Grief Dog Tears Moon Notes Wave Sunlight Sleepers Jingles Dog Food Saboteurs

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.”

World Years Firsts Home Mother Felt Half One Word Anchors

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.”

Firsts Made Reality Faces Stars Lines Decision Vegetarian Shocked

Author:Renee Olstead

“The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.”

Firsts Actors Horse Riding Cowboy

Author:Richard O'Brien

“Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.”

Firsts Care Term Humility Building Capable Reform Health Care Traits Mandates Health Care Reform

Author:Ron Fournier

“I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically.”

Feels Firsts Long Country Brain Growing Happened Projects Long Time First Time Educational Educated Improving 1960s Drains Brain Drain

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.”

Knows Want Writing Firsts Book Childhood Your Children

Author:Tea Obreht

“In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.”

Firsts Century Theory Property Proof Related Chemicals Quarters Composition Compounds Nineteenth Century Interdependence Chemical Compounds

Author:Wilhelm Ostwald

“We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.”

Knows Firsts Form Conditions Changed Internals Biology Primitive Organisms Obliged Simulate

Author:Wilhelm Ostwald

“When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.”

Trying Firsts Body Running Morning Minutes Figures Happenings

Author:Danny Pudi

“My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be.”

Firsts I Can Order Wife Mom Being The Best Schedules Hectic Best Mom Hectic Schedule

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“I have a respect for the 3-D computer-generated action movies, but my first love is stuff like 'Lethal Weapon.”

Firsts Action Stuff Love Is Computer Weapons First Love Action Movie Lethal Weapon

Author:Josh Peck

“I think it's important that your first film be your worst film, that one's life trajectory should go up.”

Thinking Should Firsts Important Film Worst Trajectory

Author:Kevin Pollak

“In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?”

People Firsts Age America Certain Asks House Shots Catchers

Author:Marisha Pessl

“As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first.”

Firsts Wonderful Sea Ships Charmed

Book:The Voyages of Joshua Slocum

Source: The Voyages of Joshua Slocum

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