“I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.” PeopleFirstsPersonsSaidActingClassLaughingSawsTeacherCryI RealizedQuittingComedianThey SaidActing ClassesStand Up Comedian Author:Wendy Liebman
“Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school and that's very clear.” FirstsHelpingKidsSchoolLife IsClearI RealizedMeant To Be Author:Greg Mortenson
“It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.” FirstsWellsShowsJobsHoursSleepCollegeI Realized Author:Dick Cavett
“It's through working with a lot of first-time directors that I realized that people learn on their feet. Everybody works on something for a different reason. Everybody has got something new to learn on these sets, and you don't have to know everything, the second you start.” PeopleKnowsFirstsDifferentReasonFeetDirectorsFirst TimeI RealizedSomething New Author:Jess Weixler
“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.” YearsFirstsMadeDoneAbleNew YorkPaintingPaperSixMovedSevenI RealizedDestroyedDefault Author:David Salle
“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.” WritingFirstsSongProcessMy OwnFirst TimeAlbumsI RealizedLearning ProcessReally Happy Author:Tove Styrke
“I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn't figure out that mathematics of the story first.” ThinkingFirstsEndsStoriesPerfectFiguresSceneMathematicsFinalsI RealizedThrowing Author:Brit Marling