First Quotes
On beginnings, and what a 'first' really changes.
The quotes gathered here treat 'first' loosely: a rookie athlete crediting the teammates who set the tone early, a filmmaker's take on what should scare an audience right away, and a physicist weighing what can and can't be known first. If early relationships resonate, see our First Love.
My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties.
I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.
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When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.
I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it...
I had an unbelievable experience on '24'. We shot 198 episodes, and I was as excited about shooting the 198th as I was the first.
The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.
The first songs I made brought me to the Grammys. I was a five-times nominated teenager off voice memos and songs that were clearly recorded off different mics.
We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.
I really enjoyed working on the 2009 film, 'Aliens in the Attic,' because it was shot in New Zealand and I got to visit there for the first time.
When I first came to California, it was fun and exciting to get any part in any movie and get paid for it. Because of my size and my background, it seemed like I was right for just about anything.
I'm nervous before all games, but once I hit that first shot, the jitters go away.
When we first invested in Red Hat, it was thought to be totally insane. When we funded MySQL, it was only partly insane.
We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.
'City of Bohane' has been optioned for film, and I've finished a first draft of the script.
My first restoration was on 'Napoleon,' trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.
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One quote pushes past personal firsts into a civic claim about equal standing under the constitution, which broadens the theme beyond simple nostalgia. Related pages include First Impression and First Step.
