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.
I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me.
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I had done student films for the School Of Visual Arts and for NYU and all these schools in New York, so those were my first film experiences, but they were student films, so I guess they don't really count.
It's weird: when I first got on Twitter, I had a couple hundred, then thousand, followers. Now I have over 53,000.
I'm absolutely delighted because I'm part of the process that has made Asians very much part of the mainstream fabric of Britain, whereas, when I first started, we were completely on the margin.
'Viceroy' is the first British film about the Raj and the transfer of power from Britain to India made by a British Indian director. It is a British film made from an Indian perspective.
Ayasdi's customers can finally learn the answers to questions that they didn't know to ask in the first place.
I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to...
When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.
Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on.
My one experience with Lollapalooza was in 2009 - it was actually the first music festival I've ever been to.
When Mrs. Bush was First Lady, she went all over the Mideast talking about breast cancer awareness and the need for early screening. She did this in places where the cultures prohibit such discussion or even detection efforts.
I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.
'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to 'Shantaram,' the first a prequel.
My first date was with Endeavour, and my last date is going to be with Endeavour, as far as space shuttles are concerned.
Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.
There are a lot of people highly motivated to be the first to clone a human.
Fandom grew first through individual correspondence. It was cheap and quick, continent-wide contact for a penny stamp.
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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.
