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“One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.”

People Men Firsts Real Shows Cities Worry Television Standards Seasons New Orleans Television Shows High Standards Old Movie

Author:Wendell Pierce

“It's about listening first, then selling.”

Firsts Listening Selling

Book:Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business

Source: Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business

“I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.”

People Years Firsts Social Enjoy Scene Crowds Administration Johnson

Author:Sally Quinn

“The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.”

Thinking Firsts Shows Written Fans Tvs Seasons Wire

Author:Amy Ryan

“You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.”

People Firsts Wanted Guy Nice Doctors Nice Guy Parkinson Parkinson's

Author:Michael J. Fox

“Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.”

Writing Trying Firsts Persons Book Plans Work Out First Person

Author:Brent Runyon

“One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.”

People Years Firsts Whole Bigs Song Five Groups Fronts First Time Criminals Suits Five Years Smooth Gloves Kindergarten Five Year Olds Blazers Fedoras

Author:Chance the Rapper

“I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.”

Firsts Said I Can Ideas Home Reading Novel Audience Written Crime Dad My Dad Wide Bus Conductor Scots

Author:Ian Rankin

“I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.”

Firsts Stories Competition Radio Newspapers Prize Short Story

Author:Ian Rankin

“My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.”

Thinking Giving Firsts Book Enough Dream Half Novel Five Giving Up Six Dozen Publishers Turned Down

Author:Ian Rankin

“At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.”

Thinking Firsts Play Seems Enjoy Efficiency

Author:Kathy Reichs

“Every job feels like my first.”

Feels Firsts Jobs

Author:Kelly Reilly

“I first went to the Chubut valley, the colony that runs about 800km across the width of Argentina, in 2000. My uncle had been there tracing family and came back saying I had to go. So a year later I did.”

Years Firsts Running Valleys Uncles Colony Argentina Tracing Width

Author:Matthew Rhys

“That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.”

People Firsts Made Play Chance Rocks Fronts Majors Camps Boots Good Friend Rock And Roll Boot Camp

Author:Adam Rich

“When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.”

Mind Firsts Team Inspired Elites Gymnastics Of My Mind

Author:Aly Raisman

“Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth.”

World Way Firsts Real Bigs Artist Possibility Internet Right Now Depth Spread Substance Youtube

Author:Amy Ray

“Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.”

Knows Firsts Figures Behavior Meetings

Author:Arthur Rock

“At first I didn't dig country.”

Firsts Country

Author:Charlie Rich

“Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would cause our gross domestic product, which has been growing at an annual rate of around 2 percent, to fall at a rate of 2.9 percent in the first half of 2013.”

“At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.”

Firsts Television Grades Modeling Pizza Thirteen Huts Ninth Grade Television Commercials

Author:Donna Rice Hughes

“I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.”

World Firsts Artist Actors Fashion Mets Musician Campaigns Ignorant Tricky Sportsman Burberry

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.”

Mind Firsts Mean Film Acting Extraordinary Screens Eyebrows Up And Down

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.”

Firsts Computer Speed High Speed

Book:The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

Source: The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

“Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.”

Firsts Self Helping Evil Teach Higher Battle Gains Shining Sufi Higher Self Evil Within

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.”

People Firsts Country Hard Used Father Individual President Islam African American Hostility Antagonism American President Working Very Hard

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me.”

Ifs Want Firsts Character Stories Challenges Deals Directors Criteria

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“I would like to take the stigma away. 'Mastectomy' the word seemed so scary to me at first. After doing research and seeing the advancements, the surgery has come a long way from 20 years ago. The results can be incredible.”

Way Years Firsts Long Results Seeing Research Years Ago Incredibles Scary Surgery Long Way Advancement Stigma Mastectomy

Author:Giuliana Rancic

“One of my first thoughts I had when I started considering the mastectomy was, 'What am I going to look like?' And then, 'What will my husband think?”

Thinking Firsts Looks Husband My Husband Considering Mastectomy

Author:Giuliana Rancic

“I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible.”

Thinking Firsts Song Terrible Songwriters

Author:Graham Russell

“I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head.”

Thinking Trying Firsts Kind Character Stories Song Fall Ready Couple Instruments Locked Scenarios

Author:Graham Russell

“I'm really looking forward to getting back and winning some matches but I'm not thinking about the U.S. Open yet, just getting through my first match.”

Thinking Firsts Winning Looking Forward

Author:Greg Rusedski

“I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.”

“I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.”

Firsts Wanted Acting Growing Up Five Growing Player Ambition Musician Nine Hockey Usual Hockey Player

Author:Michael J. Fox

“When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.”

Firsts Youth Arrogance Arrogance Of Youth

Author:Joely Richardson

“You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.”

Firsts Persons Different Action Design Program Combat First Person Shooter

Author:John Romero

“When I was 6, I saw a commercial that Jessica Simpson was in and that was the first time I felt my little heart flutter.”

Firsts Heart Littles Felt Saws First Time Jessica

Author:Lee Ryan

“One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends.”

Thinking Firsts Persons Said Lasts Mother Chance Sorry Unfair Exes First Person Ex Boyfriend Your Ex

Author:Lily Rabe

“I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.”

Years Firsts Moving Three Mom My Family Athlete Selfish Three Years Unselfish Time To Move On Family First

Author:Melanie Roach

“My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar.”

Firsts Jobs Sports Tables Bars Jersey Rockets New Jersey Waitress

Author:Melissa Rauch

“When my husband came to my parents' house for the first time, he asked, 'Why is everyone screaming? Why are they so angry?' I said, 'No one's angry. This is just how we communicate.”

Firsts Said House Parent Husband First Time Angry Communicate My Husband

Author:Melissa Rauch

“The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.”

Firsts Play Father Cities Effects New York Late Hip Hop Radio Enormous Hips Hops Stations New York City Exposed Disco Radio Stations Happenstance

Author:Michael Rapaport

“When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side."”

Firsts Kids Song Sides Walks Reeds Favorite Song Wild Side

Author:Michael Rapaport

“Before 'Twilight,' occasionally I would get the 'Hey are you that girl from that movie?' but no one knew my first and last name. The fans of the saga are amazing, and it's very flattering.”

Firsts Lasts Girl Names Fans Hey Twilight Flattering That Girl Saga Firsts And Lasts

Author:Nikki Reed

“I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.”

Firsts Edits Fiddle

Author:Nora Roberts

“I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.”

Writing Firsts Stories

Author:Nora Roberts

“I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.”

World Firsts Littles Play Water My Own Saws First Time Inspired Guitar Staying My Sister Amusement Jimmy Roger Muddy

Author:Otis Rush

“I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.”

Knows Firsts Two Might Three Four Player Winner Slam

Author:Patrick Rafter

“What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.”

World Firsts Whole Growth Imagination Fronts Development Whole World

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“On first blush, Hold 'em seems like a ridiculously simple game.”

Firsts Seems Games Simple Ems

Author:Richard Roeper

“I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio where there isn't that sense of anxiety or nervousness of who they are because I don't think it would be as productive in the studio if that was the case. But maybe meeting someone like Neil Young for the first time made me anxious.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Made Would Be Young Cases Anxiety First Time Meetings Studios Productive Anxious Nervousness Amazing People Meeting Someone

Author:Rick Rubin

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