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“I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.”

Firsts Jobs Acting Roles Trouble Months Couple Six Agents Six Months

Author:Dean Norris

“I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.”

Years Firsts Three Parent Four Fit Six Instruments Seven Guitar Eight Four Years Playing Guitar

Author:Chord Overstreet

“My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.”

Thinking Giving Firsts Book Enough Dream Half Novel Five Giving Up Six Dozen Publishers Turned Down

Author:Ian Rankin

“The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.”

Years Firsts Children Life Is Four Awareness Buddhism Six Female Males Primaries Exposure

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.”

Years Firsts Company Four Six Democratic Senate Slam Barbara

Author:Ellen Malcolm

“Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.”

Firsts Lasts Lost Five Week Son Six Letters

Author:Dick Ebersol

“I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.”

Thinking Firsts Two Play Shows Months Involved Six Models Theater Males Forty Plastic Six Months Casting

Author:Austin Peck

“There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a contest that will focus on the possibility of the first woman president to be six months suspending up the nomination of a black woman, who is imminently qualified.”

Firsts Bigs Black President Race Focus Risk Possibility Months Republican Six Democratic Clinton Contests Black Women Six Months Qualified Nominations

Author:Barack Obama

“You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.”

Men Firsts Kids School Individual Realizing Five Six

Author:Yelawolf

“If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Book Law Months Six Six Months

Author:Bertrand Russell

“A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.”

Firsts Dying Months Thousand Six Goodbye Death And Dying Six Months Bereavement After Death

Author:Allan Gregg

“Invest in yourself. It's like being a boxer, you've got to be in training so that when the bell rings, you get your direction you come out of the corner and you're *ready*. Do not let the audition be the first thing you've done in six months.”

Firsts Done Ready Months Six Training Corners Rings Bells Auditions Six Months Boxers Invest In Yourself

Author:Karl Urban

“In 2006, the number of children in targeted school choice programs nationwide will reach six digits for the first time, representing a 40 percent increase in the number of children in targeted school choice programs and an even bigger increase in the amount of public funding.”

Firsts Children School Choices Numbers Amount Six Percent First Time Program Bigger Increase Funding Representing School Choice

Author:Clint Bolick

“I dropped out of Reed College [Portland, Oregon] after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?”

Firsts College Months Six Quitting Six Months Reeds Oregon Portland Portland Oregon

Author:Steve Jobs

“I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.”

Firsts Father Skills Six Wire Plugs

Author:Gordon Bell

“Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll up the work, and paper would just get destroyed. Once I looked at what I'd done, I realized I had made a painting, sort of by default.”

Years Firsts Made Done Able New York Painting Paper Six Moved Seven I Realized Destroyed Default

Author:David Salle

“In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged musicians who had clearly been on tour for decades, and they all looked haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I vowed to myself that I would never be that person. Flash forward 20 years and I found myself in Heathrow looking haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I decided I would rather spend my time staying home working on music and making dinner with friends, instead of spending six months in a hotel in a state of depressing suspended adolescence.”

“I just want to say that, all you do, no matter how bad your diet is, for the first six months or year, I just reduce the amount, even if it's horrible stuff. That you can deal with it.”

Ifs Want Years Firsts Matter Stuff Deals Months Amount Six Horrible Diets Six Months

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn't live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was "the problem that had no name." Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.”

Years Firsts Humans Problem Turns Names Term Realizing Common Steps Our Lives Century Movement Six Faults Motherhood Human Life Forty First Steps Eighty Expectancy Life Expectancy

Author:Betty Friedan

“When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop was. Now you just go and take pictures.”

Firsts Months Six Photograph Preparation Six Months

Author:Martin Parr

“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

“I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day. The Lakers had the Showtime era. Boston had six hall of famers on one team. You had Detroit, the New York Knicks, and now the Miami Heat. They were stacking their teams back then, it just fell off over the years and now it picked back up. Boston did it first, then LA. I was fortunate enough to play against them when they had Shaq, Kobe, Rick Fox, Gary Payton, Karl Malone... that's five hall of famers on one team! So you can't get mad at Miami for doing what they did.”

“Significant changes in the growth rate of money supply, even small ones, impact the financial markets first. Then, they impact changes in the real economy, usually in six to nine months, but in a range of three to 18 months. Usually in about two years in the US, they correlate with changes in the rate of inflation or deflation." "The leads are long and variable, though the more inflation a society has experienced, history shows, the shorter the time lead will be between a change in money supply growth and the subsequent change in inflation.”

“I was literally fabricated over in France and born about six months after the boat landed at Ellis Island. This was the heart of the Depression. For the first 12 years of my life we lived in a terrible ghetto on the East River.”

Years Firsts Heart Sports Born Months Terrible Six Rivers East Boat France Islands Six Months Ghetto Ellis Island

Author:Bob Cousy

“The first three championships that I won, I won them. I had big numbers and I won them. And last year, the guys won it for me. They won it for the big guy. Numbers are overrated. There's a lot of guys in this league who can say they've got great numbers. But they can't say they've got four rings in the last six years.”

Years Firsts Bigs Lasts Guy Three Winning Numbers Four Basketball Six Rings League Last Year Championship Overrated Big Guys

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“It takes six years to make a golfer: three to learn the game, then another three to unlearn all you have learned in the first three years. You might be a golfer when you arrive at that stage, but more likely you are just starting.”

Years Firsts Might Three Games Stage Six Golf Starting Three Years Golfers Unlearn

Author:Walter Hagen

“I made a point to not read too far ahead with the first six or seven episodes of any show. I would read the outlines, but I didn't really want to read scripts too far in advance because I didn't really want to get ahead of myself, at all. To be honest, I don't have the time to come up with theories.”

Want Firsts Made Shows Honest Theory Six Seven Scripts Come Up Being Honest Episodes Outlines Get Ahead

Author:Simon Baker

“When I think about my father, the first image that comes to mind is holding his hand as he drove me to the train station six weeks before he died; I had never noticed how beautiful his hands were until I saw them, for the first and last time, entwined in mine.”

Thinking Mind Firsts Hands Lasts Beautiful Father Saws Week Mines Six Died Train Stations Last Time Firsts And Lasts Entwined Train Stations

Book:Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to enjoy it because enjoying art is something they expect of themselves as civilized persons, but they're unsure how to do so. They aren't even sure which of the visible objects are art and which are furniture, clothes, hors d'oeuvres, or construction rubble, and whether a pile of dead and decomposing rats is deliberate art or just another pile of decomposing rats.”

Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

“I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.”

Want Writing Years Firsts Play Character Might Lasts Actors Stage Particular Months Six Originals Productions Six Months

Author:Neil Simon

“it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.”

Years Firsts Ideas Might Next Waiting Months Ten Six Worried Bored Village Good Ideas Committees Six Months Retired Joining Booksellers

Book:Angels Rush In

Source: Angels Rush In

“People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from.”

People Years Firsts Water Drug Six Computer Years Ago Appreciate Doctors Miracle Hot Grateful Fingers Saved Call Me Surgery Optimist Fever Scarlet Six Year Olds Hot Water Antibiotics

Author:Julian Simon

“For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.”

Firsts Talking Careers Months Six Six Months Alright

Author:Jack Whitehall

“I learned an invaluable lesson from a kid in Argentina when we were playing Buenos Aires in 2002. I came out of the hotel and this 16-year-old-boy asked me to sign his copy of my Six Wives of Henry VIII album. As I was signing it I asked him 'what does a 16 year-old like about this old music?' and he looked at me, quite hurt, and said, 'it might be old to you, Mr Wakeman, but I only heard it for the first time last week. When you hear something for the first time, it's new.' I've never forgotten that.”

Years Firsts Doe Said Might Kids Lasts Hurt Boys Wife Heard Week Lessons Six First Time Forgotten Albums Hotel Copies Signing Invaluable Argentina Old Music Henry Viii Buenos Aires Henry V

Author:Rick Wakeman

“The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.”

Firsts Humans Children Sometimes Humor Religious Week Birth Six Devil Stealing Substitutes Infant

Author:Martin Luther

“The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.”

Thinking Years Firsts Self Careers Six Singing Conscious Weight Harder Comment Self Conscious

Author:Kenny Rogers

“It isnt only fictional heroes to whom toast means home and comfort. It is related of the Duke of Wellington - I believe by Lord Ellesmere - that when he landed at Dover in 1814, after six years absence from England, the first order he gave at the Ship Inn was for an unlimited supply of buttered toast.”

Years Firsts Believe Mean Home Order I Believe Lord Hero Comfort Six England Absence Ships Related Unlimited Toasts Dukes Inns Wellington Dover

Book:A Taste of the Sun

Source: A Taste of the Sun

“My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.”

Writing Years Firsts Art Five Six Training Disappointment Alternatives Right Direction

Author:Laurence Housman

“I think sometimes you get given a good pile of goodwill, and it's whether you use it up in the first six months or spread it out over a career.”

Thinking Firsts Sometimes Use Given Careers Months Six Spread Six Months Goodwill

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.”

Writing Firsts Book Age Six

Author:Gore Vidal

“Life begins at six--at least in the minds of six-year-olds. . . . In kindergarten you are the baby. In first grade you put down the baby. . . . Every first grader knows in some osmotic way that this is real life. . . . First grade is the first step on the way to a place in the grown-up world.”

Knows World Way Years Mind Firsts Real Steps Baby Six Real Life Grades First Steps Kindergarten Six Year Olds

Author:Stella Chess

“[On the legend that after being beheaded St. Denis walked six miles with his head in his hands:] It is only the first step that is difficult.”

Firsts Hands Difficult Steps Six Miles Legends First Steps

Author:Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

“During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.”

World Years Firsts Important War Six Independent War Of The Worlds Empires World War I Entity Components Dynasty Hungary Hungarians

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“I write 1,000 words a day first thing in the morning but I cannot write 240 characters to describe a piece that I spent six weeks working on with a producer.”

Writing Firsts Character Morning Pieces Week Six Producers

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“I started designing my handbags in my apartment and I had six samples made in satin-finished nylon. I displayed them at trade shows but they went unnoticed at first.”

Firsts Made Shows Design Six Trade Finished Apartment Unnoticed Sample Handbags Satin Nylon

Author:Kate Spade

“Six out of seven times we landed successfully [on the Moon]. I wanted to be a part of that and I was a part of that, so my personal feeling is of great gratefulness for having somehow been in a position to have been given the opportunity to be on that first landing. That's a marvelous experience for a little kid that grew up in New Jersey. So I'm very thankful, and I asked the whole world to give thanks once we successfully landed.”

“When I first went on [Facebook], I found there were five or six Creed Bratton sites. It was all over the place. I had to compete with other people saying they were me. It was nuts, so this is nice that people know that if they're gonna send something to me, I'm gonna be with my weird little mind looking at what they have to say. And what they're seeing is actually me.”

People Ifs Knows Mind Firsts Littles Found Five Nice Seeing Six Nuts Creeds Site Little Minds

Author:Creed Bratton

“I was offered a job at the Cincinnati Post as their editorial cartoonist in a trial six month arrangement. The agreement was that they could fire me or I could quit with no questions asked if things didn't work out during the first few months. Sure enough, things didn't work out, and they fired me, no questions asked.”

Ifs Firsts Enough Jobs Fire Months Six Work Out Quitting Trials Posts Agreement Arrangements Six Months Cartoonist Editorials Questions Asked

Author:Bill Watterson

“I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv.”

Firsts Wanted Perfect Tvs Dad Six Seven My Dad Comedian Hardy Laurels Perfect Days Laurel And Hardy

Author:Will Smith

“Instead of having a baby, why dont you get a tattoo of a baby first, and see how that works out for six months to a year, and then see if you're ready to have a baby.”

Ifs Years Firsts Humor Funny Ready Baby Months Six Work Out Tattoo Six Months Having A Baby

Author:Chelsea Handler

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