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.
Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.
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My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.
When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.
First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.
I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.
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.
The first 45 or 50 years of the regional theater movement, all these folks, they built these theaters. The job of the next generation is to maintain them.
President Obama became our first African American president, and for me, it is the stuff of which dreams are made.
A caveman took a shell, and maybe it had a hole in it, or maybe he put a hole in it, and he put it on a piece of a tail of a donkey or a dinosaur or something and...
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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.
