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“I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me.”

Thinking Want Years Firsts Made Book Moments Causes Crime Particular First Time Punishment Crime And Punishment

Author:Ron Rash

“When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.”

Firsts Fans Wind

Author:Sally Rand

“I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.”

Firsts Film Effects Cameras

Author:Sam Raimi

“When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.”

People Knows Writing Firsts Stories Hands Situation Century Originals Familiar Nineteenth Century

Book:Satyajit Ray: Interviews

Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews

“I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.”

Thinking Trying Firsts Persons Achieve

Author:Sonny Rollins

“Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.”

Thinking Knows Years Firsts Wells Character Wanted Guy Actors Gone Character Actors

Author:Stephen Root

“To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.”

Should Firsts Social Security Benefits Gains Increase Impact Workers Income Consumers Typical Social Security Inflation American Workers

Author:Steven Rattner

“For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.”

Firsts Kind I Can Important Spiritual Challenges Support Emotional Painful Divorce Recommendations Emotional Support Going Through Divorce

Author:Alana Stewart

“All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.”

Needs Firsts Book Language Lines Levels Alive Reader Pages Finals

Author:Ali Smith

“A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.”

Years Firsts Play Games Laughing Alive Tears Baby Training My Sister I Smile Smile And Laugh

Author:Ali Smith

“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.”

Knows Firsts Wells Stills Ends Character Past Mystery Century First Time Speed Posts Flash Rolling Our Thoughts Bent Tweet Paragraph Know It All 140 Character Rolling Along

Author:Ali Smith

“I have been studying women’s political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.”

Firsts Has Beens Helping Political Study Behavior Gender Gaps Legendary Gender Gap

Author:Eleanor Smeal

“I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.”

Firsts Feelings Games Victory Ten Down And Eight Enjoyed Noses Boxing Knocking Knockouts

Author:Emanuel Steward

“When I was 15, I got a job at the first Hollister that opened up.”

Firsts Jobs

Author:Jessica Stroup

“Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date.”

Firsts Phones First Date

Author:Jessica Szohr

“When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.”

Firsts Kind

Author:John Slattery

“The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.”

Firsts Wanted Saws Sweet First Time Aliens

Author:Octavia Spencer

“I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.”

Ifs Firsts Home House Argument Thirds Family And Friends Second Chance God First

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.”

Firsts Wells Heart Wanted Desire My Heart Dancer

Author:Phyllis Smith

“I'm not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Australians and French players, you name it. It's a tough thing. But it is one of those things. Would I rather have a Grand Slam in my country than not? I would.”

Firsts Has Beens Country Home Names Player Tough Slam Tough Things

Author:Samantha Stosur

“The summer I finished my first novel Ghana Must Go, I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lomé to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.”

Firsts Novel Summer West Finished Ghana West Africa

Author:Taiye Selasi

“Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.”

Firsts Looks Law House Lord Members House Of Lords

Author:Alan Sugar

“I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.”

Firsts Book Grows Lines Focus Scene Plot

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.”

Trying Firsts My Family Coaches Olympics

Author:Alicia Sacramone

“I'm not a first-place person.”

Firsts Persons

Author:Amy Sedaris

“When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.”

People Ifs Firsts Community Talking Gay Insane Gay Marriage Fascists Reactionaries Gay Community

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.”

Firsts Law Family Sitting First Time Lists In-laws Dysfunctional Family Tubs Scissors

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“Our first goal is to stop the recession and start with recovery.”

Firsts Goal Recovery Recessions

Author:Antonis Samaras

“As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.”

Firsts War Hands Able Fronts Glasses Officers Vodka Cucumbers

Author:Asne Seierstad

“In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.”

Want Firsts Persons Doe Political Views Rights Campaigns Corporations Amendments First Amendment Disclosure Political Campaign First Amendment Rights

Author:Bernie Sanders

“In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is an inspiration to girls throughout Vermont and the country in allowing them to know that the opportunities they have are unlimited.”

Knows Years Firsts Country States Inspiration Girl Opportunity Given Becoming Female Allowing Governors Unlimited Vermont Madeleines Years Of Service

Author:Bernie Sanders

“The Iraqi elections were an important first step.”

Firsts Important Steps Election First Steps Midterm Elections

Author:Brent Scowcroft

“My first job was cleaning sheep pens.”

Firsts Jobs Pens Sheep Cleaning Ballpoint Pens

Author:Brian Sandoval

“My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.”

Knows Firsts Jobs House My Own Pay Know How Cost Members Concepts Court Clubs Tennis Grades Milk Embarrassing Clay Sweeping Yacht Sixth Grade Bmw Tennis Courts

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Two Character Novel Neurotic

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.”

Writing Firsts Two Book Jobs Teaching Odd Odd Jobs

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of 'Horace Silver.”

Thinking Firsts Real Kids Player Generations Heard Groups Jazz Affection Silver My Generation Back When

Author:David Sanborn

“Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.”

Firsts Wells Heart Guy Broken First Time Tragic

Author:Jamie Foxx

“My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.”

Firsts Different Jobs House Towns Hated Afternoon Cleaning Elderly Clean House

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.”

People Firsts Reason America Spirit Possibility East Something New Openness Stem Coast East Coast Pioneering Pioneering Spirit

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.”

Years Firsts Country Government Spirit Four Changed Thousand Succeed Series Injustice Thousand Years Conquest

Author:Ezra Stiles

“After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result.”

Years Firsts Courses Results Class Teacher Degrees University Examination First Class Obtaining Biochemistry

Author:Frederick Sanger

“I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. I don't really need to do that, and I thought if I could do something for sport in Scotland, that would be really fulfilling.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Helping Feelings Would Be Sports Politician If I Could Fulfilling Scotland

Author:Gordon Strachan

“In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.”

Ifs Firsts May Moving Player Kings Demand Moved Touched Opposing

Author:Howard Staunton

“My first acting job was a Breck commercial.”

Firsts Jobs Acting

Author:Jaclyn Smith

“There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.”

Firsts Interesting Couple Meetings

Author:John Sandford

“I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the 'Endless Summer' album in 1974. The power of that music still, to this day, bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. You don't have to think about it; it's something that you feel.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Heart Stills Brain Boys Summer First Time Albums Endless Beach This Day Bypass Beach Boys

Author:John Stamos

“Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.”

Firsts Felt Musician Encounters Etc Rejected Specialists

Author:Karlheinz Stockhausen

“On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.”

Years Firsts Country Facts Nations Fronts Pages Native Native American Tribes Sovereignty Interfaces Settlers New Relationship

Author:Ken Salazar

“Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.”

Way Firsts Left Knowledge Tasks Dues Broke Successors

Book:Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Source: Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

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