“I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.” FirstsJobsActingRolesTroubleMonthsCoupleSixAgentsSix Months Author:Dean Norris
“I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.” YearsFirstsThreeParentFourFitSixInstrumentsSevenGuitarEightFour YearsPlaying Guitar Author:Chord Overstreet
“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.” ThinkingGivingFirstsBookEnoughDreamHalfNovelFiveGiving UpSixDozenPublishersTurned Down Author:Ian Rankin
“The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.” YearsFirstsChildrenLife IsFourAwarenessBuddhismSixFemaleMalesPrimariesExposure Author:Frederick Lenz
“It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.” YearsFirstsCompanyFourSixDemocraticSenateSlamBarbara Author:Ellen Malcolm
“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.” FirstsLastsLostFiveWeekSonSixLetters Author:Dick Ebersol
“I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.” ThinkingFirstsTwoPlayShowsMonthsInvolvedSixModelsTheaterMalesFortyPlasticSix MonthsCasting Author:Austin Peck
“There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a contest that will focus on the possibility of the first woman president to be six months suspending up the nomination of a black woman, who is imminently qualified.” FirstsBigsBlackPresidentRaceFocusRiskPossibilityMonthsRepublicanSixDemocraticClintonContestsBlack WomenSix MonthsQualifiedNominations Author:Barack Obama
“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.” MenFirstsKidsSchoolIndividualRealizingFiveSix Author:Yelawolf
“If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.” IfsGivingFirstsBookLawMonthsSixSix Months Author:Bertrand Russell
“A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.” FirstsDyingMonthsThousandSixGoodbyeDeath And DyingSix MonthsBereavementAfter Death Author:Allan Gregg
“Invest in yourself. It's like being a boxer, you've got to be in training so that when the bell rings, you get your direction you come out of the corner and you're *ready*. Do not let the audition be the first thing you've done in six months.” FirstsDoneReadyMonthsSixTrainingCornersRingsBellsAuditionsSix MonthsBoxersInvest In Yourself Author:Karl Urban
“In 2006, the number of children in targeted school choice programs nationwide will reach six digits for the first time, representing a 40 percent increase in the number of children in targeted school choice programs and an even bigger increase in the amount of public funding.” FirstsChildrenSchoolChoicesNumbersAmountSixPercentFirst TimeProgramBiggerIncreaseFundingRepresentingSchool Choice Author:Clint Bolick
“I dropped out of Reed College [Portland, Oregon] after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?” FirstsCollegeMonthsSixQuittingSix MonthsReedsOregonPortlandPortland Oregon Author:Steve Jobs
“I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.” FirstsFatherSkillsSixWirePlugs Author:Gordon Bell
“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
“In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged musicians who had clearly been on tour for decades, and they all looked haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I vowed to myself that I would never be that person. Flash forward 20 years and I found myself in Heathrow looking haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I decided I would rather spend my time staying home working on music and making dinner with friends, instead of spending six months in a hotel in a state of depressing suspended adolescence.” YearsFirstsPersonsStatesHomeFoundSawsMiddleMonthsSixMusicianDecidedDinnerSpendingDecadesUnhappyMy TimeHotelStayingFlashDepressingAdolescenceSix MonthsAirportsUnhealthySuspendedMiddle AgedHaggardDinner With Friends Author:Moby
“I just want to say that, all you do, no matter how bad your diet is, for the first six months or year, I just reduce the amount, even if it's horrible stuff. That you can deal with it.” IfsWantYearsFirstsMatterStuffDealsMonthsAmountSixHorribleDietsSix Months Author:Sylvester Stallone