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.
In the nicest possible way, my first job was at Sainsbury's - my mum worked there, and I was a bag packer.
On the pitch, my first tournament, the European Championship in England in 2005, was special.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance...
I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldi's in Queens.
One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'
I have struggled with self-esteem issues since my teens, but it's clear in my first long-ago diary that I didn't start out that way. I acquired my low self-esteem. I learned it.
I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' by Brecht.
The first time I went to Cannes, Gus Van Sant was there in competition with 'Last Days.'
The first 'Interdimensional Cable' episode is amazing because it's filled with such absolute drunken nonsense.
My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.
I'm not in this for the money because if I was, I would have jumped out after our first album.
I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
I thought I'd write a massive postmodern novel about Richard the Lionheart and Robin Hood, but it turns out they couldn't have met because the first mention of Robin Hood appears 60 years after Richard died.
My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11.
I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.
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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.
