“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.” YearsFirstsJobsActorsFiveBecomingMovedCoffeeBunchFive YearsShopsLos AngelesCoveringGreat FriendCoffee ShopBest ExperiencesBecoming Great Author:Katie Leclerc
“In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.” PeopleThinkingWayFirstsFactsLiteratureSeeingAbsolutesMovedBaloney Author:Norman MacCaig
“When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.” WorldFirstsIdeasDifferentRealWould BeSchoolRomanceGirlWaitingSleepNovelSweetHeroHigh SchoolDecidedMovedDrivenReal WorldValleysRomance NovelMicrocosmSleeping Beauty Author:Francine Pascal
“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.” IfsFirstsMayMovingPlayerKingsDemandMovedTouchedOpposing Author:Howard Staunton
“When I first moved to L.A., I didn't have a lot of money to join a gym or take classes, so I improvised. My sister and I went to the library and looked over their DVD collection and discovered Neena and Veena, these Egyptian twins who have a whole series of belly dancing routines. We did them all.” FirstsWholeClassMovedDancingSeriesLibraryCollectionsGymMy SisterLots Of MoneyTwinsBellyDvdsEgyptian Author:AnnaLynne McCord
“When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.” ThinkingFirstsFilmNextGivenWatchesSceneMovedEtc Author:Zhang Ziyi
“When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.” FirstsPersonsBigsPhotographyCamerasMovedWorriedFlashFilmmakingAssistants Author:Lauren Greenfield
“I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never ridden Harleys.” FirstsFirst TimeMovedBikeHarleyHonda Author:John Travolta
“Set up your study or picture in an orderly fashion. This order should not cramp either the linearist or the colorist... Never lose sight of that first impression by which you were moved.” ShouldFirstsOrderLosesStudyFashionSightMovedImpressionOrderlyFirst ImpressionCramps Author:Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
“The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.” FirstsLittlesReasonJobsCarStupidFirst TimePerformancesMovedCaliforniaEnginesCobras Author:Carroll Shelby
“The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth century), is easily turned aside with just one more question: Who or what caused and moved God?” ThinkingFirstsCausesCenturyArgumentMovedJust OnePrimeHumeSt Thomas Book:Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time Source: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
“When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near the Canadian border, from Argentina, and there was nobody there that spoke Spanish, and because there was no internet at the time, not even cable TV yet, I lost the connection with my childhood friends and the culture I had been brought up with for my first decade completely.” FirstsTwoStatesCultureLostUnitedUnited StatesChildhoodNew YorkBrotherTvsMomInternetConnectionsMovedMy MomDecadesBordersSpokesCablesArgentinaTwo BrothersCable TvChildhood Friend Author:Viggo Mortensen
“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