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“The first ones I played were in New York at Joe's Pub; I played four shows, but I did something like 30 interviews and a couple radio shows in the mornings and completely blew out my voice. It kind of sucked.”

Firsts Kind Shows Voice Morning Four New York Couple Radio Interviews Pubs

Author:Hamilton Leithauser

“Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.”

“Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty four hours.”

Men Firsts Guy Fall Jesus Christ Hours Four Picks Jesus Christ Twenties

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Peak hours for sending a first email through the online dating system tended to be during work (eleven A.M. to four P.M.) and then just after dinner (seven P.M. to nine P.M.). I did have a few women send me a first message after eleven P.M. Those who did had an 82 percent chance of coming from a profile that had too many words.”

Firsts Hours Chance Four Messages Percent Dating Seven Dinner Nine Online Email Eleven Profile Online Dating

Author:Amy Webb

“Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.”

Firsts Humans Faces Four Empowered Human Faces

Author:Charles Bukowski

“The disciples had nothing to gain by lying and starting a new religion. They faced hardship, ridicule, hostility, and martyr's deaths. In light of this, they could never have sustained such unwavering motivation if they knew what they were preaching was a lie. The disciples were not fools and Paul was a cool-headed intellectual of the first rank. There would have been several opportunities over three to four decades of ministry to reconsider and renounce a lie.”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens Light Lying Motivation Three Opportunity Four Fool Intellectual Gains Starting Decades Hardship Ministry Preaching Disciple Ridicule Martyr Hostility Renounce Unwavering

Author:J.P. Moreland

“When you first get married, they open the car door for you. Eighteen years now...once he opened the car door for me in the last four years - we were on the freeway at the time.”

Years Firsts Lasts Four Doors Car Married Four Years Eighteen Freeways

Author:Joan Rivers

“I'd love to have three or four kids. But my mom always says: "Speak to me after you have your first".”

Firsts Kids Three Speak Four Mom My Mom

Author:Ivanka Trump

“I think if you can write a play, or produce a play, the first step toward success [is] if people don't want to kill themselves in the lobby. Now there must be four or five other steps, but that's the first.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Writing Firsts Play Steps Five Four Produce First Steps

Author:Jean Kerr

“I remember the first day I got there, they started the take and after four takes I was on the ground, on my back, with a banana and a Twizzler in my hand, and my face was green, and they said, "You can't get back on set for another 30 minutes." That was a, "Welcome to Atlanta," and that put everything in perspective.”

Firsts Said Hands Remember Faces Four Minutes Perspective Green Welcome Get Back They Said Bananas Atlanta

Author:Steven Yeun

“For the first four years of my studying in the U.S., I couldn't go home for two reasons. One is I was afraid that if I left my student visa may not hold and I wouldn't be able to come back to continue. Second, there was this big outrage in China that I didn't know how to face the public.”

Ifs Knows Years Firsts May Two Reason Home Bigs Able Faces Left Know How Study Four Students China Four Years Outrage Visa

Author:Amanda Schull

“The first time you went to the gym, to be trained and worked out, there'd be about four or five wrestlers, they'd take you to heavy calisthenics and then they beat the tar out of you... after you got tired. If you came back the next day they'd do the same thing. After about four days of you surviving this punishment, then maybe they might show you how to wrestle. That was to teach respect.”

Ifs Firsts Shows Might Next Teach Five Four Beats First Time Tired Heavy Punishment Gym Next Day Surviving Wrestler Calisthenics

Author:George Steele

“Since 1873, I have been back four or five times. I have used the best cameras and the most sensitive emulsions on the market. I have snapped my shutter, morning, noon and afternoon. I have never come close to matching those first plates. (On photographing The Mountain of the Holy Cross)”

Firsts Has Beens Used Morning Five Four Holy Mountain Crosses Cameras Sensitive Afternoon Plates Noon Matching Shutters Holy Cross

Book:An eye for history: the paintings of William Henry Jackson : from the collection at the Oregon Trail Museum

Source: An eye for history: the paintings of William Henry Jackson : from the collection at the Oregon Trail Museum

“So I always get in some kind of situation where next thing I know it's four a.m. and I go, uh oh, I have a photo session first thing in the morning!”

Knows Firsts Kind Next Situation Morning Four Session

Author:Lita Ford

“I gave away the money advanced from my record company on my first album, I'm the type of person who likes to give. I gave to my sister. She has four little babies and bought an old house and it needed repairs.”

Giving Firsts Littles Persons House Company Records Four Baby Type Needed Albums Likes My Sister Record Companies Old Houses

Author:Jo Dee Messina

“When I pray the Lord's Prayer, I begin with the first word, "Our. . ." (see Matthew 6:9) and I stop and ask myself, "Who do I include in this Our?" I remind myself that the story of God is bigger than my personal story, bigger than the story of my religion, bigger than the story of all humanity, and bigger than the story of all creation. In the kingdom of God, these four stories are all really my stories - all at the same time - woven together, giving meaning and life to each other.”

Giving Firsts Stories Together Humanity Asks Prayer Lord Four Creation Praying Bigger Kingdoms Kingdom Of God I Pray Woven Matthew Personal Stories

Author:Samir Selmanovic

“By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still present in high school.”

Years Firsts Children Stills Age School Millions Four Heard High School Average Four Years Receiving Assistance Disadvantages Advantages And Disadvantages

Author:Sal Albanese

“For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You’ve achieved, you’ve got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in ’88, ’89 and ’90.”

Firsts Four Player Team Land College Basketball Finals Coaches Approval Stamps Basketball Player College Basketball

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“Most shows, buying shows, have a standard fee for the first shot of the writer and if you have a very militant agent, I suppose he might jack it up four percent or something. But in essence, you sell for what is the going rate.”

Ifs Firsts Shows Might Four Standards Percent Shots Essence Sells Rate Agents Buying Fees Militant

Author:Rod Serling

“I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.”

Years Firsts Book Lasts Three Taken Four Written Months Sentences Fifteen Fifteen Years

Author:Paul Auster

“When I found out after that first successful exhibition that the gallery wanted me to do another show like the first one, I come out two years later with four 6-foot drawings of classical nudes masturbating. The gallery director flipped the freak out!”

Years Firsts Two Shows Wanted Found Successful Four Feet Directors Drawing Two Years Freak Gallery Exhibitions Flipped

Author:Betty Dodson

“A psychiatrist once asked me to draw a picture of my family. This is when I was a member of a family of four. I drew the three other people in the family first, bodies and heads. And then, last, I began to draw myself - but gave up.”

People Firsts Body Lasts Three Four Members Draws My Family Gave Up Psychiatrist Family First

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

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