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“As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first.”

Firsts Wonderful Sea Ships Charmed

Book:The Voyages of Joshua Slocum

Source: The Voyages of Joshua Slocum

“The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.”

“It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening because you are like, 'What's that camera doing?' But then it becomes family and therefore a really wonderful experience.”

Want Firsts Film Wonderful Cameras Frightening Dropping Armor Wonderful Experience

Author:Ann Dowd

“We can't really understand just how wonderful Heaven will be unless we first know how wonderful each of us will be when we get there.”

Knows Firsts Heaven Know How Wonderful Heavenly

Author:David Berg

“I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Firsts Made Book Reading Wonderful Reader

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him on ROMEO + JULIET - which I think is a wonderful adaptation - and he said, "Oh, well we couldn't have done it without your RICHARD III, which was an inspiration!" I've never quite checked up on the dates to see whether or if, in fact, we did our film before he did his.”

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Author:Ian Mckellen

“Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea that we had to make a movie out of it.”

Firsts Ideas Saws Wonderful Als Documentaries Presentation Gore Inconvenient Wonderful Experience Nutty Inconvenient Truth

Author:Lawrence Bender

“If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?”

Ifs Firsts Important Stories Care Wonderful Who Cares

Author:Orson Scott Card

“The birth of a new fact is always a wonderful thing to experience. It's dualistically called a "discovery" because of the presumption that it has an existence independent of anyone's awareness of it. When it comes along, it always has, at first, a low value. Then, depending on the value-looseness of the observer and the potential quality of the fact, its value increases, either slowly or rapidly, or the value wanes and the fact disappears.”

Firsts Facts Values Existence Quality Wonderful Awareness Birth Lows Discovery Increase Independent Disappear Wonderful Things Observers Presumption Looseness

Author:Robert M. Pirsig