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“The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.”

“Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and parenting passages, each emphasizing the connections to the generations ahead and behind. As I grow older, for example, I might first see my role as a parent in need of older, mentoring parents, and then become a mentoring parent myself. When I become a grandparent, I might expect to seek out older mentoring grandparents, and then later become a mentoring grandparent.”

Needs Firsts Might Grows Parent Interesting Behinds Accepting Roles Generations Stage Example Connections Complexes Separation Passages Grandparent Drifting Mentoring

Book:Childhood's Future

Source: Childhood's Future

“Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?”

Source: The Woman in White: Wilkie Collins Top Collections

“The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright.”

People Years Firsts Light Stage New Year Lectures Fright Stage Fright

Author:John Edensor Littlewood

“The lust of dominion innovates so imperceptibly that we become complete despots before our wanton abuse of power is perceived; the tyranny first exercised in the nursery is exhibited in various shapes and degrees in every stage of our existence.”

Firsts Existence Stage Shapes Degrees Abuse Various Lust Tyranny Dominion Nursery Abuse Of Power Wanton Despots

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“At each stage of development the child needs different resources from the family. During the first year, a variety of experience and the availability of the parents for attachment are primary. During the second and third years, stimulation of language development is critical. During the years prior to school entrance, information that persuades children they are loved becomes critical, and during the school years it is important for children to believe that they can succeed at the tasks they want to master.”

“CBGB was a wild place, ... The first time I ever played there was in 1987, I think, with my hardcore band, Scream. And I remember the craziest [thing] about that club was you could be in front of the stage and it could be louder than any show you've ever been to in your life. But if you were towards the back of the club at the bar, you could sit and have a conversation with someone. It was the weirdest thing to me.”

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Author:Dave Grohl

“I was sort of trained in drama. I went to theater school. I started on the stage. Comedy is absolutely an essential part of what we do as actors. But I think in the grand scheme of things, comedy was born from tragedy. First there was tragedy and then there were the comedies.”

Thinking Firsts School Actors Born Comedy Stage Drama Essentials Tragedy Theater Schemes

Author:Alex O'Loughlin

“A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.”

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Author:Anthony Hecht

“The hardest thing was going through different stages of weight loss. At the beginning, it was easy to take off the weight with exercise and eating less but then you reach a point where 90 per cent of the weight loss is achieved purely through reducing your calorie intake. My goal was to lose four pounds per week. That worked well for the first few months but then things got tricky.”

Firsts Wells Different Easy Goal Loses Loss Four Week Stage Months Exercise Eating Weight Hardest Hardest Thing Weight Loss Reducing Tricky Calories Eating Less

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“I would say acting on stage is my first love.”

Firsts Acting Stage First Love

Author:David Schwimmer

“I remember thinking as I was doing the jokes for the first time, "If I can hear that very clearly, I'm not hearing laughter." It just became deafening, this buzzing noise. I mean, it was brutal. It was really terrible. Then I remember thinking, "At least nobody important, or anyone who I really respect, saw that." And then literally right when I went off the stage, Jerry Seinfeld got up and went on. So I was like, "Oh great. Seinfeld saw me bomb." On the other hand, I thought, "At least no one will be thinking of me anymore. They'll just be focusing on him."”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Mean I Can Important Hands Remember Saws Stage Terrible Laughter Jokes First Time Hearing Noise Bombs Brutal Jerry

Author:Seth Rogen

“I'm putting my emotion out on stage so people can actually feel me. If you feel somebody's art and you see them perform it and they aren't feeling it, that's one of the first things in the game.”

People Ifs Feels Firsts Art Feelings Games Emotion Stage

Author:Kirko Bangz

“A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there's a movie. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Sometimes Play Together Reading Actors Records Cutting Doors Stage Scripts Don't Trust Stage Directions

Author:Al Pacino

“I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter.”

People Firsts Wanted White Childhood Stage Various Obsession Harlem Globetrotters

Author:Johnny Depp

“Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.”

Firsts Kind Seems School Rocks Stage Huge Band High School Singers Songwriters Singer Songwriters Lame Rock Bands

Author:Tyler Hilton

“I miss the beginning stages when you didn't know what to expect. When everything was fresh, just experiencing it for the first time. That's something you can't buy with all the money in the world, that feeling.”

Knows World Firsts Feelings Stage Missing First Time

Author:Kurupt

“At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.”

Years Firsts Art Stage Design Television Majors University Theatre Planning Maryland

Author:Jim Henson

“The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.”

Way Firsts Science Goal Existence Half Stage Argument Notion Half Way Non Existence

Author:Zeno of Elea

“I definitely want to start my own production company at some point. I'm actually teaming up with Funny or Die to put together a TV show right now, that I can't really talk about because it's still in the very preliminary stages, but if it pans out this will be the first project under my production company, which I have yet to name.”

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Author:Dave Franco

“The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first, and I've gotten their permission to tell a story or talk about them before I do it.”

Ifs Firsts Stories Wanted Stage Truth Is Permission

Author:Amy Schumer

“Many times people can access that being stage more fully and more easily if at first you are actually doing something. If you run, or dance, or do something kind of vigorous, and let the energy release, then sometimes it's easier to sit or lie down and then feel at ease and rest and be quiet and move inside.”

People Ifs Feels Firsts Kind Sometimes Running Moving Lying Energy Stage Easier Quiet Down And Access Release Ease Vigorous Actually Doing Something

Author:Shakti Gawain

“The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.”

Firsts Said Actors Stage Offers First Time Hollywood

Author:Kirk Douglas

“Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma is, therefore, merely to carry the movement one stage further. Moral fervor is the essence of the matter.”

Firsts Believe Has Beens Matter Moral Stage Movement Essence Opponents Dogma Distinguished Protestants Fervor

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“I saw Elvis live in '54. It was at the Big D Jamboree in Dallas and the first thing, he came out and spit on the stage...it affected me exactly the same way as when I first saw that David Lynch film. There was just no reference point in the culture to compare it to.”

Way Firsts Bigs Film Culture Saws Stage Compare Affected Spit Dallas

Author:Roy Orbison

“I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird as I work... The first stage is free, unconscious... the second stage is carefully calculated.”

Firsts Form Stage Painting Bird Paint Unconscious Brushes

Author:Joan Miro

“When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.”

Firsts Long Stills Night Stage Wave Adrenaline

Author:Samantha Bond

“I'm a bit of a contrarian, so I like the idea of going on stage without makeup, without the hair being done, in the jeans and shirt I've been wearing all day. At first that was an issue, because I didn't want to be disrespectful.”

Want Firsts Ideas Done Bits Issues Stage Hair Shirts Makeup Jeans Being Done Disrespectful Without Makeup

Author:Lou Doillon

“My first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11.”

Firsts Play Roles Stage Knaves Stage Play

Author:Justin Chadwick

“Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out! The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.”

Thinking Firsts Stills Two Whole Would Be Lasts Stage Yoga Technique Instruction Shut Up Sublimity

Book:Eight Lectures on Yoga

Source: Eight Lectures on Yoga

“My very first professional job was with a theatre company in 1965 and the first job they gave me was literally shovelling sh*t. I was an assistant stage manager and they told me to clear out the prop store. I opened it up and no-one had been in there for 25 years and it was inches deep in rat sh*t. So before I could get anywhere I had to clear it up. I thought, 'All these years of training, the best drama school in the world, and this is what I'm doing.'”

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Author:Martin Shaw

“Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.”

Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“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

“When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.”

Firsts Age Stage Performers

Author:Ethel Waters

“Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.”

People Firsts Shows Three Four Stage Walking Late Mercy Albums Crowds Release Surfing San Francisco

Author:Tom Araya

“I'm working on a number of different things. I'm working on a couple of TV things and I'm working on a couple of film things too, and they're all very early stages. One of them I'm writing myself, one of them I'm writing with somebody else, and one of them I'm supervising a writer, and they're all sort of coming up at the same time and it'll be interesting to see which one kind of reveals itself first and jumps ahead.”

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Author:Neil Burger

“I feel like I've gone through stages with the industry; when I first started showing it was during the time of the recession, the economical situation meant fashion was suffering. But now the fashion business is back and booming, and I think it just encourages me to constantly set myself bigger and bigger challenges and reach new goals.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Suffering Goal Challenges Situation Gone Stage Fashion Industry Bigger Recessions New Goal Fashion Business

Author:Roksanda Ilincic

“The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.”

Firsts Lasts Stage Praying Holy Bounds Firsts And Lasts Holy Living

Book:Purpose in Prayer

Source: Purpose in Prayer

“I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.”

Firsts Feelings Remember Differences Forget Audience Stage First Time Never Forget Curtains Forget It Temperature

Author:Sarah Paulson

“I dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. I studied with the Royal Academy of London for 11 years, and that did not pan out, but my love for being on stage was born there. And then, I actually went to drama school in Paris, France. That's where it first started.”

Years Firsts School Born Stage Becoming Drama London France Paris Dancer Ballet Royal Academy Ballet Dancer

Author:Diane Kruger

“Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.”

Needs Firsts Humans Seems Life Is Difficult Stage Available Human Life

Author:Dallas Willard

“As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation "intergenerational intimacy": that's euphemism. A good-hearted editor tried to talk me out of using the term "sodomy": that's avoidance. My students don't know the word "fornication" at all: that's forgetfulness.”

“And from the first moment that I ever walked on stage in front of a darkened auditorium with a couple of hundred people sitting there, I was never afraid, I was never fearful, I didn't suffer from stage fright, because I felt so safe on that stage. I wasn't Patrick Stewart, I wasn't in the environment that frightened me, I was pretending to be someone else, and I liked the other people I pretended to be. So I felt nothing but security for being on stage. And I think that's what drew me to this strange job of playing make-believe.”

“All new ideas pass through three stages: first they are dismissed as nonsense, then they are rejected as being against religion and finally they are acknowledged as the truth, with the proviso from the initial opponents that they knew it all along.”

Firsts Ideas Three Stage Opponents Nonsense New Ideas Rejected Initials Against Religion

Author:Karl Ernst von Baer

“When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.”

World Firsts Self Stage Thirds Violent Reactions Opposition Evident Ridicule

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That's why I'm so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.”

Firsts Sports Stage Taught Underestimated Playing Sports

Author:Bernie Mac

“One of the first things that you learn as a stand-up is, you're the boss. It's your stage, and don't screw with me because I'll make you look bad, which I had to do, because you wind up with drunks and loud people.”

People Firsts Looks Stage Wind Comedian Loud Boss Screws

Author:Bob Newhart

“Everyone, everywhere, and all the time, used to laugh at me when I was growing up. So, when I was around 18, I thought, 'I'll become a comedian, and then if everyone laughs at me, I'll be famous.' So I went on stage one night and, for the first time in my life, everyone stopped laughing at me.”

Ifs Firsts Used Night Laughing Growing Up Growing Stage First Time Comedian One Night

Author:Emo Philips

“A friend of mine had his own theatre company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great.”

Thinking Firsts I Can Play Reading Grows Felt Simple Company Careers Stage Mines First Time Sight Theatre Love At First Sight Gang

Author:David Alan Grier

“Hollywood is just so strange. It's like, everyone has a whole bunch of stuff boiling away and whichever one happens first, happens. That one, we're still in the process of, you know, trying to write the script. So, it's still very early stages at this point. Yeah.”

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Author:James Wan