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“We needed to make a sound that's not gonna fit in with everything else - we wanted to make something that was completely unique and individual to us. We spent a lot of time trying to make a sound that was a One Direction sound. At first it was quite hard to do that, but I'm really happy with the sound.”

Trying Firsts Hard Wanted Individual Sound Needed Fit Unique Really Happy One Direction

Author:Zayn Malik

“It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.”

“When Ben Stiller and I first got married and we first had kids, I felt I needed to prove we could still do it and I could still work separately from Ben and I could still work with him. I just let go of all of that now. I said to him, 'For me, a little bit goes a long way.'”

Way Firsts Littles Long Said Stills Kids Felt Bits Needed Prove Letting Go Married Little Bit Long Way Just Let Go

Author:Christine Taylor

“Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.”

Firsts Steps Needed First Steps

Author:Jim Talent

“The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty nest is learning to put myself first. I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let them have space and learn without me.”

Knows Men Firsts Bigs Care Strong Realizing Space Son Mom Needed Empty Independent Raised Hardest God Love My Son Nests Strong Independent Empty Nest

Author:Kim Alexis

“I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.”

Firsts School Actors Company Needed Theater Expanding New Company

Author:Charles Kimbrough

“We're comfortable financially, so it wasn't a financial issue that I voted Conservative. Basically, it was for the same reason we voted for Diefenbaker. First it was Mackenzie King, then St. Laurent -- Christ, the Liberals were in something like 20 years in a row (22 actually) --and we simply needed a change. It was getting like a dictatorship. Whether elected or not, that's not good for the country. I didn't go to war for a dictatorship.”

Years Firsts War Country Reason Christ Issues Kings Needed Comfortable Financial Conservative Dictatorship

Author:Don Drysdale

“One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When I was in 7th grade my entire class spent the entire school year preparing to launch a spaceship all together. We all had our different jobs that we had to learn how to do, we learned the math that you needed, we learned the practical skills that you needed, and I thought that was really cool. So I think that if you can take a tragedy and find the gold in it and turn it into something positive, that's great.”

“War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90's as a journalist, partly out of curiosity and partly because I needed a career. War reporting has been very glamorous and exciting, and everything else that young men like.”

Men Firsts Has Beens War Young Careers Needed My Family Exciting Curiosity Curious Journalist Young Man Affected Glamorous

Author:Sebastian Junger

“For years, I went around the world looking and then painting, but now I have to think first and then paint. It's driven me to find the design concept first, and to rely on my memory and technical skills to supply only those details that are needed.”

Thinking World Years Firsts Memories Design Painting Needed Skills Concepts Paint Details Driven Around The World Rely Technical Skills

Author:Milford Zornes

“Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been a mongrel among academic pursuits, borrowing whatever it needed from other fields.”

Firsts Wells Long Art Fields Needed Criticism Pursuit Logical Academic Borrowing

Author:James Elkins

“What is needed is competence first and enthusiasm first. There is nothing second! Although each or one of these alone is a good start, one without the other is impotent. But if I had a choice I would have enthusiasm first.”

Ifs Firsts Choices Needed Enthusiasm Competence

Author:Julius Sumner Miller

“If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it.' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!”

“As time goes by, I'm increasingly impressed by how very special and timely it was that we got the degree of national commitment needed to put people on the Moon. For the first time, this nation was united in trying to develop an interplanetary capability. We've been trying to repeat that situation ever since.”

People Trying Firsts Nations United Situation Special Needed Moon Degrees Commitment First Time Repeats Capability Impressed Timely Time Goes By

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What's needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take 'everyone on Earth' to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.”

“Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.”

Knows Firsts Wells Sports Cases Happened Needed Tough Rounds Indian Tournaments Erase

Author:Amelie Mauresmo

“A lot of people talk about the trail healing them, but I feel like, the first time, it humbled me, which I probably needed. It was a completely new way to experience the world and my body.”

People World Way Feels Firsts Body Healing Needed First Time New Ways Trails

Author:Jennifer Pharr Davis

“The first win came very quick, and I didnt know what it meant to win a major championship. I was a teenager, I was very young. I didnt know what I was doing. I just needed some time to get settled in on the tour.”

Knows Firsts Young Winning Needed Majors Teenager Championship

Author:Inbee Park

“I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.”

World Should Firsts Believe Children Whole I Believe Fantasy Generations Share Taught Needed Adults Whole World Fantasy Worlds

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry—what am I?—is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. It is the kind of mind which can see things as they are, which step by step and in a flash can realize the original nature of everything.”

Mind Firsts Kind Nature Realizing Accepting Steps Practice Doubt Possibility Ready Needed Habit Empty Originals Innocence Experts Emptiness Flash Inquiry Beginners

Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.”

Should Firsts Lasts Order Given Color Needed Add Last Words Finishing Precaution Finishing Touches

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.”

Firsts Littles Sometimes Wanted Bits Needed Curious Courageous Annoying Discovering Persistent Be Courageous

Author:Audre Lorde

“This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the goddamn bank. Then I took my second paycheck and put it in the goddamn bank. I had seen the roller coaster of my father's career - top of the world, then unemployed - and I never wanted to take a job because I needed money.”

World Firsts Wanted Jobs Father Money Careers Advice Needed Be Good Unemployed Good Advice Paychecks Roller Coaster Coasters Top Of The World

Author:Joss Whedon

“I borrowed my friends car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.”

Firsts Three Car Needed Husband My Friends My Husband Tickets Borrowed Borrowing

Author:Emily Mortimer

“I had an unorthodox high-school experience; I shifted around to different schools. When I got to college and met Larry Sacharow, who ran the theatre department [at Fordham University in NYC], he was the first person to say ‘I believe in you.’ At that point, I just needed someone to say ‘I see you, I get you, let’s go.’ It’s an amazing thing to borrow someone else’s confidence in you; it can change your life.”

“There was no Congressional Club for my first campaign. There was no organized state group of Young Republicans, but there was a dedicated core of young people who volunteered to do anything my campaign needed.”

People Firsts States Young Groups Needed Republican Clubs Campaigns Core Organized Dedicated

Author:Jesse Helms

“The events in Prague, together with the Berlin blockade, convinced the European recipients of American economic assistance that they needed military protection as well: that led them to request the creation of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which committed the United States for the first time ever to the peacetime defense of Western Europe.”

“I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn't play well here at Ford, but I thought it was an important signal to send internally, that these were the kind of issues we needed to be grappling with.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Kind Important Play Speak Issues Needed London Executives Signals Conferences Grappling Greenpeace

Author:Bill Ford

“Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead of sensation, A Crime So Monstrous gives us desperately needed insight and analysis. This is an important book, the first deep look into America's confused relationship with human trafficking and slavery today. Skinner's balanced dissection of our government's haphazard policies will be controversial, but it can also be the foundation for a new anti-slavery agenda, one that ends the political games being played with the lives of slaves.”

“Until the day when, your endurance gone, in this world for you without arms, you catch up in yours the first mangy cur you meet, carry it for the time needed for it to love it and you it, then throw it away.”

World Love Firsts Gone Loneliness This World Arms Needed Despair Endurance

Book:Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

“The hardest work that actors have done, including myself, is on poorly written scripts. And when you first start out you do anything. I did a lot of crap. I did more crap than I can tell you. But you did it because you needed the money. You have to pay for your pictures and resumes, and classes and insurance and food like everybody else. In those days if it was crap you just didn't put it on your resume.”

Ifs Firsts I Can Done Actors Pay Class Written Needed Including Scripts Hardest Crap Resumes

Author:Bryan Cranston

“When I first learned about Abrams and saw the types of books they were making, I knew I wanted my books to be published by them. Abrams books are special-when you hold one in your hands, you have the feeling that this book needed to be made. I once heard an artist say that books are fetish objects-I think Abrams gets that, because their books demand to be treasured. So who better to give comics art its proper due? I feel privileged to have found a home with Abrams.”

Thinking Giving Feels Firsts Art Made Book Feelings Home Hands Wanted Artist Found Saws Heard Special Objects Type Needed Demand Dues Privileged Fetish Treasured Abram

Author:Jeff Kinney

“I spent my entire first pay cheque from Cracker, a TV show on ABC, on an Audi because my other car broke down and I needed to get to work.”

Firsts Shows Pay Car Tvs Needed Down And Broke Tv Shows Crackers Cheques Audi

Author:Josh Hartnett

“Every politician just has to remember how he got his position in the first place. A young candidate running for Congress or any outsider interested in public office could only achieve his goals by relying on soft power. They could not force anyone to vote for them. They needed to convince their potential voters, they needed to do fundraising, they needed to be attractive candidates.”

Firsts Running Remember Young Force Goal Achieve Position Needed Politician Office Vote Congress Attractive Candidates Convince Voters Outsiders Fundraising Public Office

Author:Joseph Nye

“I'd like to say that I am romantic person, but I don't think I am. When I won my first tournament I went into the crowd and kissed my girlfriend. I was 18 and didn't have my coach with me, I was there on my own, and I just needed to celebrate with someone I knew. I always start out with good intentions. I'll say something nice, then I'll just put my foot in it and ruin the moment.”

Thinking Firsts Persons Moments My Own Nice Feet Needed Intention Crowds Coaches Ruins Celebrate Girlfriend Tournaments Good Intentions My Girlfriend Romantic Person

Author:Andy Murray

“Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality ?”

Firsts Humans Moments Reality Would Be Science Answers Generations Mystery Needed Ancestor Odds Deluded

Book:God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

Source: God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

“I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note.”

Years Firsts Careers Needed Encouragement Notes Supporter

Author:Jim Evans

“I saw my rock'n'roll past flash before my eyes. And I saw something else: I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time.”

Feels Firsts Made Eye Past Young Night Names Saws Rocks Needed First Time Hearing Rock N Roll Flash Rock And Roll Springsteen Hearing Music

Author:Jon Landau

“Early in my career, a critic said that I needed to "explain" the irony in my work, suggesting that I needed to add text next to the images to help people understand what I was trying to say. At first I was dismayed that I wasn't making work with a clear enough message. That's when I realized that that was the exact opposite of what I wanted to do - that I wasn't responsible for a misinterpretation of my work, that there should be some ambiguity to it. They either got it, or they didn't.”

People Should Trying Firsts Said Enough Helping Wanted Next Careers Clear Needed Messages Opposites Responsible Add Critics I Realized Irony Ambiguity Suggesting Dismayed Misinterpretation

Author:Cindy Sherman

“The question of whether a device will come into being depends upon three things: first, whether there is a practical use for it that warrants its development and manufacturing costs; second, whether the laws of physics applying to the elements available for its design allow the attainment of the needed ranges, sensitivities, or the like; and third, whether the pertinent art of manufacture has advanced sufficiently to allow a useful embodiment to be built successfully.”

Source: MODERN ARMS AND FREE MEN: A DISCUSSION OF THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN PRESERVING DEMOCRACY

“When I left home at sixteen I bought a small rug. It was my roll-up world. Whatever room, whatever temporary place I had, I unrolled the rug. It was a map of myself. Invisible to others, but held in the rug, were all the places I had stayed - for a few weeks, for a few months. On the first night anywhere new I liked to lie in bed and look at the rug to remind myself that I had what I needed even though what I had was so little. Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you.”

World Firsts Looks Littles Sometimes Helping Home Lying Night Left Rooms Week Months Needed Bed Safe Invisible Maps Temporary Sixteen Precarious Safe Places

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The reason I gained so much weight in the first place and the reason I had such a sorry history of abusive relationships with men was I just needed approval so much. I needed everyone to like me, because I didn't like myself much.”

Men Firsts Reason Needed Weight Sorry Like Me Approval Abusive Abusive Relationship

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I remember my first lesson on the pilgrimage was the lesson of receiving. I had been on the giving side for many years and I needed to learn to accept as gracefully as I had been able to give, in order to give the other fellow the joy and blessing of giving. It's so beautiful when you live to give. To me it's the only way to live because as you give you receive spiritual blessings.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was around 7, and my choir teacher at school asked me if I would sing it. My parents told me that I needed to move around the stage, so for the entire time I just walked back and forth from side to side while I was singing - there's videotape of it.”

Ifs Firsts School Remember Moving Parent Sides Teacher Stage Needed Singing Tails Back And Forth Choir Somewhere Out There

Author:Carrie Underwood

“The overwhelming joy of conversion or a new calling is often followed by feelings of being overwhelmed with duties and doctrines. The first joyous feelings are real and give one much-needed initial momentum. But the genuine exhilaration is soon followed by the need to perspire and to pedal.”

Needs Giving Firsts Real Feelings Joy Duty Needed Calling Conversion Genuine Doctrine Overwhelming Overwhelmed Initials Momentum Joyous Exhilaration Pedals Being Overwhelmed

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“There's an old poem by Neruda that I've always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with me ever since the first time I read it. It says "love is so short, forgetting is so long." It's a line I've related to in my saddest moments, when I needed to know someone else had felt that exact same way. And when we're trying to move on, the moments we always go back to aren't the mundane ones. They are the moments you saw sparks that weren't really there, felt stars aligning without having any proof, saw your future before it happened, and then saw it slip away without any warning.”

“I will sing whatever I'm given to sing. Growing up, I would sing anything that I was given. If the choir needed a first tenor, I would sing first tenor. If they needed a bass, I would sing bass. Throughout my life, I just figured out ways to hit notes I needed to hit.”

Ifs Way Firsts Given Growing Up Growing Needed Notes Bass Choir Tenors

Author:Josh Young

“There are probably very few people who have not at some time of their lives had some quality of genius. If they have not had such, it is probable that they have also been without great sorrow or great pain. They would have needed only to live sufficiently intently for a time for some quality to reveal itself. The poems of first love are a case in point, and certainly such love is a sufficient stimulus.”

People Ifs Firsts Pain Love Is Quality Cases Genius Needed Sorrow Sufficient First Love Stimulus

Book:Sex & Character

Source: Sex & Character

“Johnny sort of popped into my head midway through the first draft, and he wouldn't leave. But the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. In the first half of the movie, this guy is in the house not doing anything. I really needed an actor who's inventive and who will make enough idiosyncratic choices to make it entertaining to watch. And let's face it, Johnny Depp could make a nap interesting to watch.”

Firsts Made Enough Faces Guy Choices Actors House Interesting Half Watches Needed Entertaining This Guy Naps Midway

Author:David Koepp

“First of all, I had the desire for that format [silent movie], and then when I was talking to people, I felt that people needed justification. Why are you doing a silent movie? Is it just for your own pleasure? I felt it was not enough for them so I realized I have to choose the subject that will make things easier for them and to tell the story of a silent actor makes sense for doing a silent movie.”

People Firsts Enough Stories Desire Actors Felt Pleasure Talking Subjects Needed Easier Silent I Realized Make Sense Justification Format Silent Movies

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

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