“The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect ... but the other reason is that it was a book about being different in a culture where, for the first time in the West, being different wasn't just accepted, but was also fashionable. I don't think it's a coincidence that gay rights, black rights, the empowerment of women and political correctness all happened over those twenty years and a book about outsiders trying to be accepted was almost the poster-boy for this era in American culture.” ThinkingMenTryingYearsFirstsTwoBookDifferentReasonPoliticalCultureBlackPerfectBoysRightsHappenedGayFirst TimeEmpowermentTwentiesWestAcceptedErasOutsidersCoincidenceAmerican CultureFashionablePolitical CorrectnessBeing DifferentPostersGay RightsCorrectnessX Men Author:Mark Millar
“The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over.” IfsFirstsUnitedMillionsAirFeetFirst TimeTwentiesPopulationShouldersKingdomsSixtyUnited Kingdom Author:Eddie Mair
“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.'” PeopleKnowsFirstsI CanThreeHoursHalfSawsComedyCuttingMinutesFrontsFirst TimeTwentiesWowHalf Hours Author:Ben Stiller
“The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.” YearsFirstsAgeMotherFirst TimeTwentiesActressesHuntersAutographs Book:Ingrid Bergman: My Story Source: Ingrid Bergman: My Story
“here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.” PeopleFirstsBelieveBookEarthThreeReadingI BelieveFictionWrittenCenturyReaderResourcesFirst TimeRainTwentiesFolksForestsLayersBook ReadingFiction WritersOzoneOzone LayerWritten History Book:A Year in Van Nuys Source: A Year in Van Nuys
“I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties.” FirstsAgeStreetsFirst TimeTwentiesJailFifteenAnd OffLowlifes Author:Patricia McConnell
“I think that a lot of teenagers think they got it all down-pat. Especially when they first move out and they're on their own for the first time. Oh this is easy, this is breezy. Then all of a sudden it hits you in your mid-twenties that maybe you don't know how to do your taxes still. There's all kinds of things and you start calling your parents up again.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsKindStillsMovingEasyParentKnow HowCallingTaxesFirst TimeTwentiesAll KindsTeenagerBreezy Author:Katy Perry
“The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.” FirstsHoursFourTvsFirst TimeTwentiesCamerasHotelStationsPaparazziTaiwan Author:Jeremy Lin
“The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids.” YearsFirstsKidsHavensFirst TimeTwentiesCampsOnly Time Author:Susan Sarandon
“Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.” PeopleWayYearsFirstsGovernmentPurposeCausesDemocracyPoliticianLateFirst TimeConcernConcernedTwentiesStructureGuiltySuitsMutualFrightenedBureaucratsSmall PartsBad GovernmentNordstrom Book:Legends of the Fall Source: Legends of the Fall
“When I was in my twenties and just so sexually prolific, the first time I went to Machu Picchu, this guy, a spiritual teacher, says to me, "When you make love, you must be making love." I thought that was the greatest advice I had ever heard.” FirstsSpiritualGuyTeacherRelationshipHeardAdviceLove YouHusbandFirst TimeTwentiesMaking LoveThis GuyBoyfriendSexuallySpiritual TeachersMachu Picchu Author:Woody Harrelson
“Meditation has to spread all over your life. Whatsoever you do, do meditatively. Walk meditatively, eat meditatively. If you are making love, make love meditatively. Meditation has to become your life twenty-four hours a day; then only the transformation. Then you go beyond sex, you go beyond body, you go beyond mind. And for the first time you become aware of godliness, of ecstasy, of bliss, of truth, of liberation.” IfsMindFirstsBodySexHoursWalksFourMeditationFirst TimeTwentiesTransformationSpreadLiberationBlissOver YouEcstasyMaking LoveGodliness Author:Rajneesh