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“One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.”

Way Firsts Shows Mines Materials Happenings First Time New Things Spontaneous

Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.”

Trying Firsts Body Running Morning Minutes Figures Happenings

Author:Danny Pudi

“It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.”

Ifs Men Firsts Age Church Risk Streets Happenings Ordinary Sick Accidents Going Out Wounded Ordinary Man

Author:Pope Francis

“Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.”

Firsts Believe Humans Actors Happenings First Time Jazz

Author:Tom Sizemore

“I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.”

Firsts Book Different Kids Married Happenings Things Happen Different Things

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.”

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Author:Ed Helms

“First trust your eyes... then check by rules. Many times something else is happening, and the rules will not apply.”

Firsts Eye Happenings Checks

Author:Sergei Bongart

“It is imperative that we find that vital element that brings us alive... the true vitality that waits beneath all occupations for us to tap into, if we can discover what we love. If you feel energy and excitement and a sense that life is happening for the first time, you are probably near your God-given nature. Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Life Is Joy Energy Given Waiting Alive Elements Happenings First Time Features Excitement Occupation Vitality Imperatives

Author:Mark Nepo

“Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs.”

Firsts Government Might Figures Clothes Happenings Affair Definitions Obvious Gambling Exposed Emperor Authoritarian Government

Author:Calvin Ayre

“Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?”

“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.”

Source: I Have Changed

“To act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting. You know you can't go back next week and fix it. Whereas in a live audience you know it's so in the moment and you just go with what's happening. First of all you never have to see it again so you don't know if you were really fulfilling it or not.”

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Author:Lily Tomlin

“A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.”

Firsts Generations Happenings Conscious Creator

Book:PICASSO: Cubism and Its Impact

Source: PICASSO: Cubism and Its Impact

“My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.”

Years Firsts Country Philosophy Care Poor Rich Protect Happenings Weak Western Greed Definitions Take Care Decent Hopeless Loser Indifferent Western Society

Author:John le Carre

“Any good director creates a playground. That's what they do. They hire the right actor, open the door and let them play because stuff will happen, right then and there. The audience wants to believe that what's going on is happening for the first time, ever. That's what acting is. That's what good scene writing is.”

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Author:Martin Landau

“The reason for backing tracks is to not veer off too far from the record and have what the fans actually want to hear. Artists use backing tracks just so they can stay close to the record and what the consumer heard for the first time. It's not to be confused with lip synching or anything like that cos that's not happening at all.”

Want Firsts Reason Use Artist Records Heard Fans Happenings First Time Lips Track Consumers Confused

Author:Chris Johnson

“There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection.”

Firsts Has Beens Two Lasts Opinion Creativity Technology Evolution Amount Equal Happenings Meetings Decades Two Things Remarkable Unbelievable Intersections Pioneering

Author:Kevin Spacey

“There was one time where I failed to perform sexually. My girlfriend said to me "oh don't worry, it happens to a lot of guys". Ok, there are two things wrong with that. First of all who are these other guys?, and second of all if it's happening to more than one of us, don't you think it could be YOUR fault?”

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Author:Jimmy Carr

“A single assembly is apt to grow ambitious, and after a time will not hesitate to vote itself perpetual. This was one fault of the Long Parliament; but more remarkably of Holland, whose assembly first voted themselves from annual to septennial, then for life, and after a course of years, that all vacancies happening by death or otherwise, should be filled by themselves, without any application to constituents at all.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“The story of the universe finally comes to an end. For the first time in its life, the universe will be permanent and unchanging. Entropy finally stops increasing because the cosmos cannot get any more disordered. Nothing happens, and it keeps not happening, forever. It's what's known as the heat-death of the universe. An era when the cosmos will remain vast and cold and desolate for the rest of time the arrow of time has simply ceased to exist. It's an inescapable fact of the universe written into the fundamental laws of physics, the entire cosmos will die.”

“I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization that I could speak to people like that came first on a small scale. Then it just started happening. I started having this vibration.”

People Firsts Dream Fighting Speak Happenings Scales Realization American Dream Vibrations

Author:Jay-Z

“When I think of the pace that I drove my first race, everything was happening a million miles an hour. Now when I get in the car everything happens so much slower.”

Thinking Firsts Happens Hours Race Millions Car Happenings Miles Things Happen Pace

Author:Dan Wheldon

“A lot of the people I'm working with are not actors, or it's their first time in a movie. I'm not trying to shape performances, coax performances out of them. It's more like I want to put them in situations that naturally work or allow them to be themselves. If it's not happening, I'll just completely switch it up, rather than trying to make it work.”

People Ifs Want Trying Firsts Actors Situation Shapes Happenings First Time Performances

Author:Joe Swanberg

“'Hairspray' was my first Broadway show. In the meantime, after the show was over, I would go down and do gigs at these clubs that I wasn't even old enough to get into. That continued on, and I think what ended up happening was that I just got these incredible opportunities on Broadway.”

Thinking Firsts Enough Shows Opportunity Happenings Down And Incredibles Clubs Broadway Gigs Broadway Shows Hairspray

Author:Laura Bell Bundy

“I think what's so great about TV is I don't know if all these things were planned at first, or if they see the fans' reactions to things. They really do listen to what the fans want, and feel strongly about, and push for, so all these things are happening organically.”

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Author:Charlotte Ross

“Sometimes something will be happening in pop culture and a movie will be right there, so you'll have this perception that maybe the movie got there first. But in reality, culture gets there first.”

Firsts Sometimes Reality Culture Perception Happenings Pops Pop Culture

Author:Ellen Page

“There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn on that.”

World Firsts Believe Turns Happenings Newspapers Turn-on

Author:James Purdy

“Each piece of dialogue MUST be "something happening". . .The "amusing" for its OWN sake should above all be censored. . .The functional use of dialogue for the plot must be the first thing in the writer's mind. Where functional usefulness cannot be established, dialogue must be left out.”

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Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“Damn, my first cut that I showed to distributors was probably about two hours and 20 minutes, even though my contract said two hours. So, I had to lose 20 minutes. It's incredible that it just keeps happening.”

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Author:David Twohy

“You want to find the right balance, but you have to have the Minions because people responded so much to them. We wanted to find a story that would make the Minions more a part of the story than they were in the first movie. In this one, as you know, they're disappearing. What's happening to the Minions? We made them a much bigger part of the movie in those terms.”

People Knows Want Firsts Made Stories Wanted Term Balance Happenings Bigger Disappear Minions

Author:Cinco Paul

“Any customer that walks away, disrespected and defeated, represents tens of thousands of dollars out the door, in addition to the failure of a promise the brand made in the first place. You can't see it but it's happening, daily.”

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Author:Seth Godin

“True prevention is not waiting for bad things to happen, it's preventing things from happening in the first place.”

Firsts Happens Waiting Happenings Bad Things Preventing Prevention

Author:Don McPherson

“Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.”

“We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings, is that novelty is entering into being, and it is changing the modalities of the real world toward greater and greater levels of integration.”

World Firsts Real Levels Greater Becoming Happenings Real World Integration Entering Novelty

Author:Terence McKenna

“When I first met with Kurt [Sutter], it was one of those moments where you feel everything is happening for a reason.”

Feels Firsts Reason Moments Mets Happenings Happening For A Reason

Author:Theo Rossi

“It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or I'll feel a chord that will resonate and then I'll get something happening in my voice. My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don't know where I'm going. And I record everything. And often, I sort of get into a state, a creative state that is, where I'm just feeling around melodically, and playing things off the top of my head. Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It's like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening.”

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Author:Beth Nielsen Chapman

“I think when you fall in love, whether you're heterosexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, whatever, straight, you feel like it's happening to you for the first time.”

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Author:Cate Blanchett

“Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.”

Thinking Years Firsts Used Walks Happenings First Time Red Carpet Red Carpet

Author:Jeff Bridges

“I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.”

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Author:Ruben Blades

“When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So my first album was really all about my failed attempts to make a particular relationship work.”

Writing Firsts Song Lines Particular Happenings Direct Albums Writing Songs

Author:Erin McKeown

“I cannot find words to express the depth of my loss or outrage about what's happening to this country. I don't know if I can find the words for it, but if this country ever recovers, it will not be in my lifetime. If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill of Rights. I would have 10,000 people working there.”

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Author:Sara Paretsky

“Muslim communities are the ones that going to see radicalization happening at a mosque or hear it in the community or even among their own family members. And the other part is that there is a narrative that ISIS and other jihadists pose that this is a war between Muslims and the rest of the world.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“I had promised myself when I first got started that if I got to the point my life where I started feeling 'Gee, I'd rather be at home than at work', and that started happening more often than not, that it would be time to leave. I'd wake up some days and go "Oh, I don't even know if I want to go face this anymore". I would, I would go do it, I'm a dutiful kind of person and not afraid of work.”

Ifs Knows Want Firsts Kind Persons Feelings Home Would Be Faces Happenings Wake Up Not Afraid Time To Leave

Author:Bernie Finkelstein

“Also one of my heroes is Syd Mead, who designed the vehicles for the first Tron. So, there are so many beautiful things happening here. And working with Joe was great. He's an architect, so I worked with other directors in between who were just about the action.”

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Author:Daniel Simon

“If my goal is to change Colombia, which it is because I really think Columbia has to change in many, many ways - I think it has to be a very profound, nearly spiritual maturing process in the Colombian society because I think you have to first be aware of what's happening and it's not easy because many people don't want to see what's happening.”

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Author:Ingrid Betancourt

“What is happening today is that there are millions of children who are not lifted up to the first rung of the ladder. Then they are condemned when they don't know how to climb from there.”

Knows Firsts Children Today Millions Know How Happenings Climbs Ladders

Author:Marianne Williamson

“So what's happening with the audio/visuality, for the first time we are doing the music - the people who would come to the concert love the music - they loved him and loved his music - for the first time in concert it's not only the music. Now it's time to know the man. We know the music, but what was the man like?”

People Knows Men Firsts He Man Happenings First Time Concerts Audio

Author:Frank Sinatra, Jr.

“Willow [Smith] started making music first. I was like, "My younger sister is, like, 4, and she's making all these fire songs. What's happening?" Willow was doing all these things, about to have record label deals at like the age of 6, and I was like, "I feel like I'm underachieving."”

Feels Firsts Age Song Deals Records Fire Happenings Labels Record Labels Younger Sister Underachieving

Author:Jaden Smith

“Puberty was definitely difficult for me. I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first. You read Judy Blume and you think, "This is kind of cool." But when it actually started happening to me, I was terrified.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Remember Difficult Happenings My Friends Exciting Terrified Looking Forward Puberty

Author:Mara Wilson

“I feel like that [the role in Star Trek] is a prime example of, yeah, I got that role and it was awesome, because it changed a lot for me professionally, but then creatively, it became a whole other thing, with J.J. [Abrams] and Chris [Pine] and the people I got to know. Now I just feel like it's our jobs to be open and to keep moving stuff forward. I don't know what that means. This is the first time in a long time that I have no idea what's happening next. As scary as that is, and as anxiety-provoking as that can still be, it's also really exciting.”

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