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 first dance ever on 'Dancing With the Stars' was to 'Let's Hear it for the Boy.'
It's very cool to be able to say that my first real film was 'Footloose' and my second film I got to star alongside Tom Cruise and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran for city council.
Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.
In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.
I did study with Anne Carson briefly in Michigan. She taught there, and that's where I first encountered her, in her class.
My first film festival and my first film that I've ever been in, 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' that was at Sundance.
I cycle whenever possible around London. But I travel first class when I need to fly.
My school had a radio show, and when I first decided to become a rapper, I was on there, and I would, like, freestyle.
My first published writings were trying to take scientific concepts and make them clear for a general audience.
Before 'Animal House' came out to open up a huge market, there just weren't parts for young guys. That genre of film was my ticket in... One of my first jobs was with Bill Murray in 'Stripes.'
When I first heard of it, I thought it was a horror film. 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' is such a strange name. I wasn't into the comic books at all.
The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.
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Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.
Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.
'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it's dazzling.
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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.
