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“There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after about two minutes, when the solid rocket boosters separated, the ride got a lot smoother.”

Firsts Two Light Half Minutes Vibrations Rockets

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“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

“An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.”

Knows Firsts Persons Two Enjoy Minutes Orchestra Rehearsal

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite. The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid. Every minute spent on not-quite-right code counts as interest on that debt. Entire engineering organizations can be brought to a standstill under the debt load of an unconsolidated implementation, object-oriented or otherwise.”

Firsts Littles Long Interest Minutes Danger Objects Development First Time Organization Paid Debt Speed Code Engineering Load Implementation Shipping Standstill

Author:Ward Cunningham

“When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.”

Want Firsts Littles Two Character Night Actors Prayer Laughing Five Minutes Stage Demand Starting Stakes Broadway Five Minutes Exit Starting Out

Author:Charles Kimbrough

“If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Minutes Twenties Tables Gambling Sucker

Author:David Levien

“I read a review on the Herald, it says it takes 40 minutes to get to the first sex session apparently and the whole movie only contains 11 minutes of forbidden fruit.”

Firsts Whole Sex Minutes Fruit Reviews Forbidden Session Forbidden Fruit

Author:John Key

“The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.”

Firsts Book Moments Lasts Five Minutes Errors Productions Finished Bliss Flaws Five Minutes Doorstep Culmination Moment Of Truth

Book:More Matter: Essays And Criticism

Source: More Matter: Essays And Criticism

“Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and rais’d in Ocean’s pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet and wing.”

Firsts Moving Form Born Generations Groups Feet Minutes Ocean Mass Spring Wings Assuming Glasses Wave Breathing Realms Acquire Unseen Mud Caves Limbs Pierce Vegetation Fins Organic Life

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect.”

Should Firsts Meditation Minutes Yoga Intellect Each Day Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.”

People Firsts Five Pieces Written Middle Minutes Series Radio Brown Five Minutes Astonishing Middle Of Nowhere Mr Brown

Author:Brendan O'Carroll

“I used to love 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,' and I can still remember listening to them before I would fall asleep. I can remember the first ten minutes of the book perfectly, but whether I knew the rest of it was slightly more dicey.”

Firsts Stills I Can Book Remember Used Fall Minutes Listening Ten Witch Lions Wardrobe Used To Love Lion Witch Wardrobe Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe

Author:William Moseley

“I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was always doing gags and voices, so he booked a gig for me without telling me. I only had four days to write it. I did a seven-minute set; the first four minutes were terrible, but the last two were amazing.”

Should Writing Firsts Two School Lasts Voice Four Minutes Terrible Drama Seven My Best Friend Gigs Gags

Author:Marcus Brigstocke

“I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that was the beginning, in a place called Bostwick, Florida, in northern Florida, in a little tiny church, and on a cold night, about 40 people. And I was so nervous.”

People Firsts Littles Remember Night Church Four Minutes Cold Ten Tiny Nervous Florida Sermons Cold Night

Author:Billy Graham

“I'm always a little leery about doing shows where I'm not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes. After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.”

People Ifs Firsts Littles Persons Made Matter Shows Wanted Decision Minutes Missing No Matter What Seven Headlines Missing A Person

Author:Al Yankovic

“We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.”

“I read a ton of scripts. I read a lot of scripts, and you read one, and first of all, you felt like you read it in 14 minutes, because you're turning the pages so fast you can't wait to see what's going to happen.”

Firsts Happens Felt Waiting Minutes Like You Pages Scripts

Author:Denzel Washington

“I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better.”

Way Firsts Would Be Able Watches Imagine Minutes Theater Runners Blades Blade Runner

Author:William Gibson

“My first job was with the Burns Detective Agency. They sent me over to the East River to guard coal barges during these god-awful hours like three to six in the morning. It wasn't a very difficult job -- all I had to do was make a round every fifteen minutes -- but it turned out to be a great environment for writing. I was completely alone in a little outhouse with an electric heater and a little desk.”

Writing Firsts Littles Jobs Three Difficult Hours Morning Environment Minutes Six Rivers Rounds East Awful Agency Electric Fifteen Desks Coal Detectives Barges

Author:Sam Shepard

“In order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his fingertips; it takes the saxophonist months to strengthen his lip so that he might play his instrument for only a five-minute stretch; it can take the pianist years to develop dual hand and multiple finger coordination. Why do writers assume they can just “write” with no training whatsoever-and then expect, on their first attempt, to be published internationally? What makes them think they're so much inherently greater, need so much less training than any other artists?”

Source: The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

“I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever coached against his son. He beat me for 30 minutes the first time and 59 and a half minutes the second time.”

Years Firsts Lasts Father Sports Half Minutes Son Proud Couple Beats First Time Dave

Author:Don Shula

“First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow, I know there's like twenty minutes that I can cut - ' when I first saw it 'But I don't know after that.' The first time I put up then in front of people I was like, 'Oh, my God, I can take that out and that out and that out.'”

People Knows Firsts I Can Three Hours Half Saws Comedy Cutting Minutes Fronts First Time Twenties Wow Half Hours

Author:Ben Stiller

“The first five years of my career, I was Inmate #1, Bad Guy #1 and Mean Guy #1. I had a great career going, until somebody told me that I was typecast. I said, "Well, what's typecast?" And they said, "Well, you're always playing the mean Chicano dude with tattoos." I thought about that and I said, "Wait a minute! I am the mean Chicano dude with tattoos, so somebody is getting it right."”

Years Firsts Wells Mean Said Guy Waiting Careers Five Minutes Five Years Tattoo They Said Bad Guys Inmates Mean Guy

Author:Danny Trejo

“I did 30 Minute Meals for five years on local television, and I earned nothing the first two years. Then I earned $50 a segment. I spent more than that on gas and groceries, but I really enjoyed making the show and I loved going to a viewer's house each week. I knew I enjoyed it, so I stuck with it even though it cost me.”

Years Firsts Two Shows House Five Week Minutes Television Cost Stuck Locals Enjoyed Meals Five Years Gas Two Years Viewers Groceries

Author:Rachael Ray

“"Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.' Which is why he was driving a Rolls-Royce."”

People Firsts Said Lasts Song Hours Minutes Paid Jazz Driving Rolls Royce Cannonballs

Author:Robert Glasper

“Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens I Can Wanted School Young Passion Can Do Acting Minutes Stage High School First Time Doctors Theater My Passion Freshman Day Life I Can Do This

Author:Sophia Bush

“There is no waiting and no delayed gratification because yoga is both the means and the result, and the seed of all that is possible is present at the very beginning. This experience of stillness is possible in the first ten minutes of your first yoga class. It is possible in this very breath.”

Firsts Mean Waiting Results Class Minutes Ten Yoga Breaths Seeds Stillness Gratification Delayed Delayed Gratification

Book:Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness

Source: Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness

“For the first 10 minutes after you meet them, they have the wattage and charisma of movie stars. Then you have a coffee with them and you realize we're all the same, we're all just people. All of the actors in The Avengers are so nice. Marvel has these code names for projects and the code name for The Avengers was Group Hug. It felt very much like a group hug on set.”

People Firsts Actors Names Stars Felt Realizing Nice Groups Minutes Projects Coffee Code Hug Movie Star Charisma Avengers

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“When I interview someone, I know in the first two minutes if I like them or not. I find that if it's easy to talk to someone and I see an openness and honesty and integrity, then I usually hire them.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Two Easy Minutes Honesty Integrity Interviews Openness Honesty And Integrity

Author:Bobbi Brown

“First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.”

People Firsts Two Matter Minutes Size Impression Experts Seconds First Impression

Author:Elliott Abrams

“The second I walked into the first interview with Harry & Niall, Harry immediately came bounding up to me asked me my name, gave me a hug and a kiss on the cheek and asked if i’d like a drink or a chocolate bar from the fridge. Having only 8 minutes with each group, he probably knew I couldn’t sit munching on a chocolate bar, but he gave me the tour of his fridge nonetheless, and I did take a Daim bar.”

Ifs Firsts Names Groups Minutes Drink Kissing Bars Interviews Chocolate Cheeks Hug Fridges Chocolate Bars

Author:Zoe Sugg

“Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.”

People Giving Years Firsts Stories Audience Laughing Minutes Fronts Give Me Down And Instinct Kicks Editing Say Anything

Author:Steve Martin

“Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last.”

Firsts Moments Lasts Life Is Fighting Minutes Breaths

Book:My Fight / Your Fight

Source: My Fight / Your Fight

“I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.”

Firsts Long Night Minutes Ready Easier Decided Online Take Me Shopping Nails Stylist Manicures

Author:Zara Phillips

“Being scared is normal. My technique for erasing it is facing it. Be afraid and brave. Be nervous and courageous. The first few minutes of being scared is your test to see if you're really serious about reaching a goal. Push through anxiety and come out victorious. Fear is just a test. Honor the feeling. Know it's there. Know it's temporary. Face it to erase it.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Feelings Faces Goal Minutes Serious Honor Normal Anxiety Tests Brave Scared Technique Nervous Reaching Courageous Temporary Erase Being Scared Reaching Goals

Author:Chrisette Michele

“I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.”

Firsts Winning Five Minutes Five Minutes

Author:Garry Hynes

“After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and Eve did when they ate the fruit was to discover that they had no clothes on. They were embarrassed. Embarrassment was the first consequence of the Fall. And embarrassment was the first literary consequence of this modernist discovery of the surface. "Am I telling a story? Oh my God, this is terrible. I must stop telling a story and focus on the minute gradations of consciousness as they filter through somebody's.”

“For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!”

Firsts Soul Ends Light Pain Turns Black Voice Minutes Worst Elements Brave Rage My Soul Thee Breasts Rave

Book:The Works of Robert Browning

Source: The Works of Robert Browning

“I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.”

Firsts I Can Moments Facts Moving Three Minutes First Time Dimensions Unbelievable Gears Unforgettable Reefs Scuba Three Dimensions Coral Reefs

Author:David Attenborough

“There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for theother fellow to make the first move--and he, in turn, waits for you. The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open- hearted and courageous way, many others follow. Not everyone can be turned aside from meanness and hatred, but the great majority of Americans is heading in that direction. I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.”

Source: My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography

“I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in... all the way, and so I remember doing my first sermon when I was 17, I was in high school. It wasn't a full twenty-five minute sermon, but for like ten minutes I got up and they let me do that, and it was on faith.”

Knows Way Firsts School Remember Five Minutes College Ten High School Let Me Twenties Sermons Five Minutes Twenty Five Presbyterians

Author:Woody Harrelson

“First of all, I'm not a heartthrob. If you saw me in high school, you wouldn't say I'm a heartthrob. Having a hit song, the minute you're famous, you're a heartthrob. I know you don't believe me, but I honestly don't consider myself a heartthrob.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Believe School Song Saws Minutes High School Don't Believe Honestly Believe In Me

Author:Enrique Iglesias

“When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for ten minutes or even five minutes - utilizing those few moments when you find yourself willing or even desiring just to take a break from the daily grind to observe your mind rather than drifting off into daydreams.”

“In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Two Minutes Subjects Select Paragraph

Author:Raymond Aron

“It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah. ... Bush insisted that Iraq is not Vietnam. Of course not, he avoided Vietnam.”

Trying Firsts Courses President Minutes Ten Tough Presses Iraq Vietnam Conferences Avoided President Bush Press Conferences

Author:David Letterman

“All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.”

“In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Three Lost Audience Minutes Havens Theatre

Author:Om Puri

“The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release. Anything I think isn't working or might not work, I don't even put it in the director's cut. And usually it's the studio suggesting I put stuff back in, as opposed to studios saying, "You got to lose 40 minutes," they are always saying, "You've got to gain five minutes."”

Thinking Firsts Might Stuff Loses Five Cutting Minutes Directors Gains Studios Release Five Minutes Suggesting

Author:Barry Sonnenfeld

“When you get to work with great people like on our movie, Blake and Ellen Burstyn and Harrison and Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, the first minute or two it's like, 'Oh my God, I'm working with you,or Harrison,' people you've admired for so long, after like five minutes you realize we're all trying to do the same thing, we all have a passion for telling good stories and we're going to try to make the story the best possible.”

People Trying Firsts Long Two Stories Passion Realizing Five Minutes Crew Five Minutes Great People Good Story Bakers Blake Amanda

Author:Michiel Huisman

“I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute film then a full-length feature. In those 15 minutes you have the opportunity to express your voice as an artist and hopefully connect with your audience. If you are trying to be a first time feature director then a short film that demonstrates you have a grasp on the themes and concepts of the movie you want to direct is a no-brainer. Whether they are collaborators or potential investors, filmmaking is a visual art form so you obviously need visuals to show them!”

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