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“My mother taught me that family comes first. It is engraved on my heart.”

Firsts Heart Mother Taught My Heart Mma Engraved Family Comes First

Author:Cung Le

“...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Doe Philosophy Might Life Is Subjects Effects Particular Cat Valuable Graves Superiors Mice Beaten Remarks Pessimist

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I try to take a snapshot of who I am now, who I am becoming, as opposed to who I was when I was first starting to make records. I'm not trying to make boring adult music, but I try to make music more reflective of what matters to me now.”

Trying Firsts Matter Records Becoming Adults Starting Boring Who I Am What Matters Snapshots

Author:El-P

“I didn't have toys and bikes; I'd go out and pick up rocks. I was into science and nature. It was my first love. I was going to be a vet and a marine biologist. I went to university and studied biology for two weeks and I just thought: "I've been conned!"”

Firsts Two Week Rocks Picks University Biology Toys First Love Bike Marine Two Weeks Biologist Vets Marine Biologist

Author:Ricky Gervais

“When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near the Canadian border, from Argentina, and there was nobody there that spoke Spanish, and because there was no internet at the time, not even cable TV yet, I lost the connection with my childhood friends and the culture I had been brought up with for my first decade completely.”

“I'm not very pious about anything, fortunately, but I'm skewering myself first. I'm skewering things that I care about and things that are important to me and then just my own foibles.”

Firsts Important Care My Own I Care Pious Foibles

Author:Paul Beatty

“Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll up the work, and paper would just get destroyed. Once I looked at what I'd done, I realized I had made a painting, sort of by default.”

Years Firsts Made Done Able New York Painting Paper Six Moved Seven I Realized Destroyed Default

Author:David Salle

“My first tattoo is a full-on Sailor Jerry situation on my hip - it's a swallow with big spread wings. When I got it I was 20 on St. Mark's Place in New York; I just walked in in a frenzy. It's still there 17 years later and it's not a terrible thing to look at.”

Years Firsts Looks Stills Bigs Situation New York Terrible Mark Wings Spread Hips Tattoo Terrible Things Sailor Jerry Frenzy

Author:Maria Dahvana Headley

“If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount.”

Ifs Want Writing Firsts Mean Book Tvs Amount Ridiculous

Author:Josh Lieb

“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.”

“I think the violence is important. It all depends on the genre. Rambo was ultra-violent, and I think it worked. You have to give Stallone credit. You have to respect him for taking that shot, and taking the violence all the way. He was the first one to do that in a long time. It fricking worked.”

Thinking Way Giving Firsts Long Important Violence Depends Long Time Shots Credit Violent Genre Ultras Rambo

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“What business would judged on the first week that it's in business?”

Firsts Week Judged

Author:Nick Kroll

“I think that my interest as a creator always comes first, so I'm wondering things like "Just how free is this world?" and "Where are the boundaries?"”

Thinking World Firsts Interest Wonder This World Creator Boundaries

Author:Hidetaka Suehiro

“You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.”

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Author:William Shatner

“Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.”

Knows Firsts Scene Happenings First Time My Favorite Favorites Things

Author:Ed Helms

“When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done French and German. I picked up Italian, just sort of blasted through the exams, [and then] took off overseas, because I wanted to be an actor. I thought, "I'm just not academic." I'm not very competitive, in terms of acting. But since going back to university, I've realized, I am highly competitive.”

Years Firsts Done Wanted Actors Language Term Acting University Italian Academic Exam Foreign Language

Author:Nick Offerman

“I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware.”

Feels Writing Firsts Stills Records

Author:Yukimi Nagano

“My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.”

Should Trying Firsts Strong Process Lessons Pure Songwriting Writing Process

Author:Yukimi Nagano

“The first time I was in Stockholm, everybody was real cordial, but I started having these nightmares that I was being watched by aliens, basically all the time. My theory on it was that it was really, really unnerving to be in a place where English isn't the first language.”

Firsts Real Language Theory First Time Aliens Nightmare Stockholm

Author:Mikky Ekko

“Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him on ROMEO + JULIET - which I think is a wonderful adaptation - and he said, "Oh, well we couldn't have done it without your RICHARD III, which was an inspiration!" I've never quite checked up on the dates to see whether or if, in fact, we did our film before he did his.”

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Author:Ian Mckellen

“If I do get a handgun, I can take it to the sheriff's department, and in about as much time as it would take me to order a value meal at Wendy's, they will give me a concealed-carry license. There will be no screening at all to see whether I'm qualified to carry a gun in public - which I absolutely am not. That's one of the reasons I haven't gotten a gun in the first place: I don't know how to use one.”

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Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“The demographic of our audience is young. It also contains a high proportion of black, Jewish and gay people, who have all been encouraged by society to think of themselves as oddities or mutants. I hope that's why X-Men chimes with them - it's certainly why I was attracted to the idea in the first place.”

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Author:Ian Mckellen

“The music comes first, like, 99 percent of the time. I come up with the basic chord structure and the melody first and then I get really obsessed with arranging, adding, and subtracting parts. The last step of the process, for me, is finding words that fit into that structure and figuring out exactly what I want to talk about.”

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Author:Mikal Cronin

“I took a lot time to do the first album, and I was really happy about that album. I co-wrote the songs and it was a learning process. When I was working on that album I realized, for the first time, that I could write my own songs.”

Writing Firsts Song Process My Own First Time Albums I Realized Learning Process Really Happy

Author:Tove Styrke

“The Age of Adaline was very special because it marks for me the first male lead on a proper Hollywood production.”

Firsts Age Special Hollywood Mark Males Productions

Author:Michiel Huisman

“My three P's would be pray, pray first. Second, prepare, and then persist.”

Firsts Would Be Three Praying Persist

Author:Tim Scott

“My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.”

Firsts Long Lasts Band Instruments Guitar Playing Guitar Trombone

Author:Dave Grohl

“When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.”

Want Firsts Ends Lasts Song Order Records Journey Sticks Maps Listeners Sequencing

Author:Dave Grohl

“I fired a bunch of people and kind of went back to my roots. I fired my agent - I had this big, fancy agent and a big fancy manager and a big fancy lawyer - and I went back to my first agent and said, "I want to go back to just being an actor."”

People Want Firsts Kind Said Bigs Actors Roots Lawyer Bunch Agents Managers Fancy Just Being

Author:Matthew Lillard

“I remember one tour with two male-fronted bands, and they had a fight over who could use the bathroom first. Then they just ended up having a beef with each other for the entire rest of the tour.”

Firsts Two Use Remember Fighting Band Males Bathroom Beef

Author:Taylor Momsen

“I remember when I was a kid my first real confrontation with space travel was when the Challenger exploded and I remember how traumatic that was for me, because I remember watching that on the news and all the children in our class were watching.”

Firsts Children Real Kids Remember Space Class News Remember When Confrontation Space Travel

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When I was in 7th grade my entire class spent the entire school year preparing to launch a spaceship all together. We all had our different jobs that we had to learn how to do, we learned the math that you needed, we learned the practical skills that you needed, and I thought that was really cool. So I think that if you can take a tragedy and find the gold in it and turn it into something positive, that's great.”

“The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.”

People Want Firsts Reason Home First Time Towns Small Town

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“When I first graduated college, I told my parents I'd try to pursue comedy for the first year or two, and if it didn't work out, I'd put my nose to the grindstone and try to find a job somehow. I went to UCB, and it clicked with me.”

Ifs Trying Years Firsts Two Jobs Parent Comedy College Work Out Pursue Noses Grindstone

Author:Ben Schwartz

“War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90's as a journalist, partly out of curiosity and partly because I needed a career. War reporting has been very glamorous and exciting, and everything else that young men like.”

Men Firsts Has Beens War Young Careers Needed My Family Exciting Curiosity Curious Journalist Young Man Affected Glamorous

Author:Sebastian Junger

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

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Author:Judy Garland

“My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.”

Firsts Seems Film Television Understood Reactions Publication

Author:Alain Resnais

“I built a career on negative reviews. I didn't get a good review ever until Fran Lebowitz gave me a good review in Interview. That was the first good review I got in 10 years.”

Years Firsts Careers Built Negative Interviews Reviews

Author:John Waters

“For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.”

People Firsts Young Rocks Green Hearing Punk Rock Music Punk Rock Packers Green Bay Madden Green Bay Packers

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“To me, falling in love is the first step in losing my confidence. If I'm in love with somebody, I think that obviously he must have other people in his life. Everything that makes me balanced and happy is suddenly in the hands of someone else. It's an extremely uneasy feeling.”

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Author:Joan Juliet Buck

“Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In '91 or '92 I saw one of those Felix Gonzalez-Torres Untitled billboards. I was just really arrested by it. It was kind of my first foray into contemporary art. It was a turning point for me as to what art could be and what it meant and the impact it could have.”

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Author:Chloe Sevigny

“When I was first writing, I used to sit at the piano and play songs - I'd write one or two a night. It was my hobby. At some point, it then became a process that was mainly done within the context of the studio, and writing became part of the recording process.”

Writing Firsts Two Done Play Used Night Song Process Studios Piano Hobbies

Author:Kate Bush

“When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary!”

People Firsts Scary Recognition Hiding Rushing Rushing In

Author:Selima Hill

“This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I feel in my toes how its roots grip the earth.”

Feels Firsts Earth Tree Draws Roots Experience Apples Branches Toes Sap Apple Trees

Author:Frederick Franck

“You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Hard Enough Hard Work Broken Careful Consideration Precious Things

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?”

Ifs Firsts Fire Cutting Burning Fuel Ignite Inferno

Author:Arun Manilal Gandhi

“If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land.”

Ifs Should Firsts Care Order Four Land Security Praying Insecurity Quarters Tranquility If You Care Personal Security

Book:The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

Source: The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

“What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small children. They are the first and purest source of artistic creation.”

Firsts Children Art Done Beautiful Values Creation Source Art Is Adults Artistic Things Done Small Child Artistic Creation

Author:Franz Cizek

“A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.”

Firsts Language Common Steps Communication Boundaries First Steps Common Language

Author:Ethan Zuckerman

“Can I overcome pressure? Yes. This is always my first thought.”

Firsts Overcoming Pressure

Author:Rickson Gracie

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