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“I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.”

World Firsts Littles Play Water My Own Saws First Time Inspired Guitar Staying My Sister Amusement Jimmy Roger Muddy

Author:Otis Rush

“I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.”

Firsts I Can My Own Careers First Time Labels

Author:Shelby Lynne

“The Devil made me do it the first time - the second time I done it on my own”

Firsts Made Done Humor Funny My Own Devil First Time

Author:Billy Joe Shaver

“I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.”

Way Giving Firsts Feelings My Own Responsibility Taken Birth First Time Guilty My Own Life Feeling Guilty

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I took a lot time to do the first album, and I was really happy about that album. I co-wrote the songs and it was a learning process. When I was working on that album I realized, for the first time, that I could write my own songs.”

Writing Firsts Song Process My Own First Time Albums I Realized Learning Process Really Happy

Author:Tove Styrke

“For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own culture which i can express and perhaps help others preserve..i have found out now that the African natives had a definite culture a long way beyond the culture of the Stone age...an integrated thing, which is still unspoiled by western influences...I think the Americans will be amazed to find how many of the modern dance steps are relics of African heritage.”

“The first time I came to London on my own, I was 15. I was absolutely oblivious to so many things. I had no expectations, no fears. I just came to do a National Youth Theatre season one summer. It was just brilliant.”

Firsts My Own Youth Summer Expectations First Time Seasons London Theatre Brilliant No Fear Oblivious Youth Theatre

Author:Gina McKee

“I love my parents and they're wonderful people, but they were strict, and I still look for ways to get even. When I got my own apartment for the very first time and they came to stay with me for the weekend, I made them stay in separate bedrooms.”

People Way Firsts Looks Made Stills Parent My Own Wonderful First Time Weekend Apartment Bedroom Strict Stay With Me Love My Parents I Love My Parents

Author:Elayne Boosler

“This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend, truer and better known to me than my own soul, may be after all only a sly beast who will end by devouring his master.”

Firsts May Soul Ends Body My Own Known Morning Masters First Time Faithful Beast Companion Sly Devouring

Book:Memoirs of Hadrian

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

“I felt a certain modicum of success because I had been paid well to be an actor for the first time in my life, but I felt like I had done adolescent work on the show, and stepping into the New York theater arena was the first time I felt like I'd come into my own. I felt like I was proving myself in a gladiatorial arena.”

Firsts Wells Done Shows Certain Actors Felt My Own New York Prove First Time Paid Theater Arena

Author:Chris Carmack

“I can't say L'Etranger influenced me to write, but for the first time I considered the possibility of telling a story that resembled my own experiences in my own voice.”

Writing Firsts I Can Stories Voice My Own Possibility First Time

Author:Sefi Atta