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.
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When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999.
I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.
The very first movie that I ever saw in a theater was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'
It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene.
All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.
In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
If a person is insane or troubled, you first have to get the person to admit that they have a problem before you can solve anything.
When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.
I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.
In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some are almost done. Some I'm rewriting. If I'm working with a co-writer, they'll usually write...
With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's like 5 percent. Which means that the parents, the ones that aren't going into stores now,...
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.
For my first album I wanted to make a record that would be intimate, deeply personal, and honest.
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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.
