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“Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.”

“I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it was one of the best experiences I ever had. It was a bunch of actors covering shifts for each other and becoming great friends.”

Years Firsts Jobs Actors Five Becoming Moved Coffee Bunch Five Years Shops Los Angeles Covering Great Friend Coffee Shop Best Experiences Becoming Great

Author:Katie Leclerc

“The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. 'Crash' was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something.”

Firsts Littles Real Beautiful Joy Lines My Own Five Scene Working It Crash Here And There Really Mean Arcs Vignettes

Author:Michael Pena

“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

“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

“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

“I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well.”

World Years Firsts Wells Persons Three Process Walks Five Accomplish Five Years Permit First Person Canyons Grand Canyon

Author:Nik Wallenda

“I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!”

Firsts Stills Kids Girl Five Achieve Clever Very Clever

Author:Anthony Minghella

“Horseshoes are lucky. Horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet. They should be the luckiest animals in the world. They should rule the country. They should win all their horse races, at least. 'In the fifth race today, every single horse was first equal...one horse threw a shoe came in third...the duck was ninth...and five ran.'”

World Should Firsts Country Today Winning Bits Animal Race Five Four Feet Lucky Equal Thirds Horse Shoes Ran Ducks Fifth Horseshoes

Author:Eddie Izzard

“When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.”

Want Firsts Littles Two Character Night Actors Prayer Laughing Five Minutes Stage Demand Starting Stakes Broadway Five Minutes Exit Starting Out

Author:Charles Kimbrough

“Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.”

Firsts Lasts Lost Five Week Son Six Letters

Author:Dick Ebersol

“I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.”

Firsts Science Sun Five Planets Moon Seven Rounds Smallest Mercury Saturn Revolving

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.”

Years Firsts Two Done Government Wanted Five Republican First Time Decided Majority Forty Transparent Things Done Good Years Government Shutdown Bad Years

Author:William J. Clinton

“You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.”

Men Firsts Kids School Individual Realizing Five Six

Author:Yelawolf

“The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.”

Firsts Book Moments Lasts Five Minutes Errors Productions Finished Bliss Flaws Five Minutes Doorstep Culmination Moment Of Truth

Book:More Matter: Essays And Criticism

Source: More Matter: Essays And Criticism

“My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.”

Writing Years Firsts Made Book Three Five Lucky Husband Five Years Three Years Housewife

Author:Judith Perelman Rossner

“And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.”

Firsts Lost Five Flight Pilots

Author:Adolf Galland

“To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary.”

Years Firsts Spirit Religion Jesus Christianity Teach Five Holy Equal Inspired Holy Spirit Glorious Revelations Five Years Flash Inward Illumination Theological Seminary

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.”

People Firsts Five Pieces Written Middle Minutes Series Radio Brown Five Minutes Astonishing Middle Of Nowhere Mr Brown

Author:Brendan O'Carroll

“At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.”

Years Firsts Age Hours Millions Five Fate Ten Breaths Satisfaction Drawing Performing Five Years Labour Factories Twelve Spinning Fourteen Cotton

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer