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“My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.”

Firsts School Left Acting Skills Theater Towns Cameras Backgrounds Small Town Movie Theater

Author:Franka Potente

“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

“At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.”

Want Firsts Practice Skills Texas Leadership Skills

Author:James R. Thompson

“Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.”

Firsts Lying Fire Society Skills Forests Smoke Sniffing Forest Fires

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.”

Firsts Humans Art Beautiful Pieces Skills Evidence Very Good Beautiful Things Formation

Book:Selections and Essays

Source: Selections and Essays

“There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules.”

Firsts Art Skills Prejudice Definite

Author:Wolf Kahn

“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.”

Firsts Father Skills Six Wire Plugs

Author:Gordon Bell

“One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When I was in 7th grade my entire class spent the entire school year preparing to launch a spaceship all together. We all had our different jobs that we had to learn how to do, we learned the math that you needed, we learned the practical skills that you needed, and I thought that was really cool. So I think that if you can take a tragedy and find the gold in it and turn it into something positive, that's great.”

“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.”

“Forget about sex. Just play first. Dance, sing, read to each other, breathe together - communicate. Don't count on sex to be the door to intimacy. It's the other way around: first develop intimacy skills. Then make love to enjoy them.”

Way Firsts Play Together Sex Enjoy Forget Doors Skills Communicate Breathe Intimacy Making Love

Author:Margot Anand

“For years, I went around the world looking and then painting, but now I have to think first and then paint. It's driven me to find the design concept first, and to rely on my memory and technical skills to supply only those details that are needed.”

Thinking World Years Firsts Memories Design Painting Needed Skills Concepts Paint Details Driven Around The World Rely Technical Skills

Author:Milford Zornes

“Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.”

Firsts Decision Skills Executives Making Decisions

Book:Management

Source: Management