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“In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.”

World Firsts Play Rooms Media Events Crisis Iran Living Room Hostage Tehran World Events Hostage Crisis

Author:Chris Terrio

“When Ben Stiller and I first got married and we first had kids, I felt I needed to prove we could still do it and I could still work separately from Ben and I could still work with him. I just let go of all of that now. I said to him, 'For me, a little bit goes a long way.'”

Way Firsts Littles Long Said Stills Kids Felt Bits Needed Prove Letting Go Married Little Bit Long Way Just Let Go

Author:Christine Taylor

“I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.”

Thinking World Firsts Wanted Names Timbuktu

Author:David Tang

“The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.”

People Firsts Matter House Position Building Habit Taste Chosen Holland Building Houses

Book:Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

Source: Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

“The first human-to-computer uploads of 2100 will prove that a perfect simulation is the thing being simulated - that a silicon soul doesn't need a physical body to inhabit. So eventually everybody who ever lived will be resurrected inside a living machine indistinguishable from God. Isn't it amazing what you can do with unlimited hard-disk space?”

Needs Firsts Humans Soul Hard Body Can Do Space Perfect Prove Computer Machines Unlimited Silicon Physical Body Simulation Disk

Author:Frank J. Tipler

“But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.”

Firsts Camps Shameful

Author:George Takei

“I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.”

Firsts Two Guy Teaching Band Rehearsal

Author:Ike Turner

“Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.”

Firsts Steps Needed First Steps

Author:Jim Talent

“I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.”

Firsts Two Choices Proud England Managers Captains

Author:John Terry

“But, I think it's great to be able to work with established directors, and then also first-timers. I feel like you learn from both of them, but then you can go and share your knowledge with each of them. That's really fantastic!”

Thinking Feels Firsts Able Share Like You Directors Fantastic Timer

Author:Juno Temple

“I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.”

Firsts Whole Process Novel Months Anxious Blogging

Author:Laini Taylor

“Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.”

Firsts Children Whole Acting Whole Life My Children

Author:Meg Tilly

“I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.”

Firsts Stills Play Bigs Waiting Hollywood Superhero Paychecks

Author:Miles Teller

“I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.”

Firsts Social College Dancing Jazz Ballet Dance Floor Tap Dancing

Author:Miles Teller

“First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song "Mama Says".”

Thinking Knows Firsts Play Whole Stories Film Song Teacher Drama Musical Jeans Belts Mama Footloose

Author:Miles Teller

“So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.”

People Thinking Men Want Firsts Actors Winning Careers Involved Tough Incredibles Holes Prize Rabbits Credibility Cameron Rabbit Holes Tough Man Prize Winning

Author:Miles Teller

“When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.”

Firsts Moments Facts Found Share Tears My Family That Moment Idols Cried

Author:Pia Toscano

“Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.”

Firsts Persons Made Inspiration Black Situation Childhood Type Hero Expectations Very Good Albums British Britain Hats Realising Urban First Person Good Place Hats Off Urban Music

Author:Tinie Tempah

“I first became interested in style when I was 16 and I had my first couple of gigs. I realised I couldn't look like the people I was performing to. Not in a condescending way, but just that it would be weird if I was wearing exactly what someone in the crowd was wearing.”

People Ifs Way Firsts Looks Would Be Style Couple Crowds Performing Gigs Realised Condescending

Author:Tinie Tempah

“I met Ellie Goulding at the BRITs. She's lovely. I've got a lot of time for her. I gave her congratulations and whatnot and she let me hold her BRIT. That was amazing - once I'd touched one for the first time, I said 'This cannot be the last time I touch a BRIT.”

Firsts Said Lasts Mets First Time Let Me Lovely Touched Last Time Congratulations Brits

Author:Tinie Tempah

“The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.”

Firsts Law Finals Final Words

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.”

Firsts Pregnancy First Pregnancy

Author:Uma Thurman

“My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer.”

Firsts Magazines Magazine Covers

Author:Carrie Underwood

“Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.”

Firsts Different Care Law President Program Health Care President Obama Coverage Medicaid Health Coverage

Author:Fred Upton

“Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.”

Firsts Actors Careers Starting Accustomed

Author:Gaspard Ulliel

“I always begin to compose the melody first.”

Firsts Melody

Author:Nobuo Uematsu

“My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.”

Firsts Wanted Song Girl Wish Known Advice Skins Like Me Obsessed Thick Thick Skin

Author:Kate Voegele

“My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.”

Writing Firsts Song Records Written Tvs First Time Universal Albums Bus Promoting Living On Writing Songs Personal Experiences

Author:Kate Voegele

“But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.”

Knows Firsts Long Fall Periods Long Time Beats Falling In Love Heavy Rap Gangsta Gangsta Rap

Author:Alan Vega

“People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.”

People Way Firsts Said Reason Rapper Reeds

Author:Alan Vega

“That's something - you laugh about Eminem... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy's for real, and I like his lyrics!”

Thinking Knows Men Firsts Real Bigs Guy Laughing Jokes Funny Men

Author:Alan Vega

“I endured quite a few injuries when I was younger and had my first surgery on my foot when I was 15. But I love dancing. 'Anna Karenina' was great for me as it meant I could combine the two and I actually went back and did some classes.”

Firsts Two Class Feet Dancing Injury Surgery Anna

Author:Alicia Vikander

“I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone.”

Want Firsts I Can Can Do First Time Staying Single

Author:Carol Vorderman

“My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.”

Firsts Happened Baby Whirlwind Rebound

Author:Carol Vorderman

“The first piece of art that I ever bought - when I could afford it - was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.”

Firsts Kind Art Faces Young Guy Pieces Periods Gallery Dean Warhol Young Guys

Author:James Franco

“I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.”

Years Firsts Half Cents

Author:Jack Vance

“When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.”

Years Firsts Two School Film Three Years Ago Series Two Years Three Years Film School Short Films

Author:James Franco

“I could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age of fans was like 15 or 16 up to people in their 20's and 30's.”

People Firsts Age Fans Lowest Email

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Character Stories Wanted Next Strong Novel Female Decided Female Characters Strong Female Characters Strong Female

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.”

Firsts Shows College Tvs Tv Shows Show Me Medics

Author:Robert Vaughn

“My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.”

Firsts War Actors Speak Hollywood Opposition Vietnam Vietnam War Speaks Out

Author:Robert Vaughn

“I haven't experienced love at first sight yet. I've seen very, very beautiful girls and been awestruck but never love at first sight. I think confidence goes such a long way with women. A girl who is confident with who she is and she can really flaunt that is really sexy.”

Thinking Way Firsts Long Beautiful Girl Havens Sight Sexy Love At First Sight Long Way Very Beautiful Beautiful Girl Awestruck

Author:Tristan Wilds

“Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.”

Firsts Wells Kind Two Important Culture Institutions Important Things Islam Differentiate

Author:Abdurrahman Wahid

“I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.”

Writing Years Firsts Character Stories Would Be Imagination Fiction Novel Subjects Skills Research Useless Articles Reporters My Imagination Profile

Author:Amy Waldman

“I mean, I do actually think there is a qualitative difference between aborting in the early part of the first trimester and in, you know, the middle or later part of the second trimester, in a way that you feel about it in that you grow attached.”

Thinking Knows Way Feels Firsts Mean Grows Differences Middle Qualitative

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.”

Writing Firsts Children Different Would Be Young Used Found Difficult Four Baby Months Accomplish Accomplish Nothing

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.”

Want Firsts Mean Universe Ability Clinton Albums What You Want Solo

Author:Bernie Worrell

“In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.”

Knows Firsts Home Christian Community And Love Raised Decades God Love Christian Home

Author:Chely Wright

“The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.”

Firsts Saws Concerts

Author:Dar Williams

“My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.”

Firsts Western Seven Magnificent Magnificent Seven

Author:Eli Wallach

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