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I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking about what's really important to them.

Quotes by Tift Merritt

Maybe the first secret is, 'Don't bore people.'

Quotes by Til Schweiger

The first album, I'd had some input, but I was 14 years old then, and I really didn't know what I was talking about.

Quotes by Tiffany Darwish

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

Quotes by Thucydides

When I first came here, Hollywood was very closed-minded.

Quotes by Tia Carrere

I wanted to be a physical therapist because I had torn up my knee and thought it was interesting with the rehab and whatever. I did kinesiology, and after the first four days of class, I dropped out because I was like, 'This ain't the class for me!'

Quotes by Thomas Rhett

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Quotes by Thomas Secker

When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what was going on back in London or Paris, it was just in a different league. It's like a 16th-century court.

Quotes by Thomas P. Campbell

We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet.

Quotes by Thomas Menino

At FC Bayern, the Bundesliga title is always the first priority.

Quotes by Thomas Muller

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Thomas Mann

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.

Quotes by Thomas Mars

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Thomas Jefferson

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

Quotes by Thomas J. Sargent

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

Quotes by Thomas Fuller

Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.

Quotes by Thomas E. Mann

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

Quotes by Thomas Clarkson

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.

Quotes by Thomas Aquinas

When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.

Quotes by Thom Gunn

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.

Quotes by Thom Gunn

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

Quotes by Theresa May

As with many teens, my first jobs included babysitting and mopping floors at McDonald's. Since then, I've held jobs a diverse as selling used cars, selling apparel, cosmetics, and real-estate, substitute-teaching six graders, teaching undergraduate creative writing, and working as an editorial assistant for a literary magazine.

Quotes by Therese Fowler

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

Quotes by Theodore Sturgeon

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

Quotes by Theodore Sturgeon

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

Quotes by Theodore Sturgeon

The second album is the hardest to write. It's nothing like the first album.

Quotes by Theophilus London

The first time I really listened to an album and thought, 'This album is mine,' was Kanye's 'Late Registration.'

Quotes by Theophilus London

Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.

Quotes by Theodor Herzl

I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed.

Quotes by Thelma Houston

If I was young again and wanted to be a professional wrestler, first thing I'd do is get jacked all to hell is what I'd do.

Quotes by The Ultimate Warrior

I feel like I'm the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

Quotes by The Weeknd

I was absolutely blown away when I first talked to Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan at how ambitious they wanted 'Westworld' to be in looking at the drives that are leading human beings over the cliff of existence.

Quotes by Thandie Newton

Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed.

Quotes by Terry Zwigoff

Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays.

Quotes by Terry Riley

Well, first I'd want a better vibrato.

Quotes by Terry Kath

I started my first business at 14!

Quotes by Terry McAuliffe

At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now!

Quotes by Terry Gilliam

Chinese President Xi Jinping says that if Canada wants free access to Chinese markets, Trudeau should first ram a pipeline to the B.C. coast on China's behalf.

Quotes by Terry Glavin

When I first met Steve, as an American tourist coming into the zoo, I fell desperately in love with him and married him immediately.

Quotes by Terri Irwin

Bindi's been filming with us since she first hatched.

Quotes by Terri Irwin

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

Quotes by Terry Brooks

I'm 40 and I just got my first beauty campaign with Clairol Nice and Easy.

Quotes by Teri Hatcher

This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign.

Quotes by Teri Hatcher

My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called 'Love for Sale,' and that was my first role in any film.

Quotes by Terrence J

It is always nice to get your first goal of the season.

Quotes by Teemu Pukki

My first album came out in 1979.

Quotes by Teena Marie

I think 'Slumdog' was probably the first big film that happened in India, but even that seemed like a one-off thing.

Quotes by Tena Desae

Let's treat this country first and foremost.

Quotes by Ted Yoho

When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series.

Quotes by Ted Naifeh

In the first week of release, 'Beasts Of No Nation' was the most watched movie on Netflix, in every country we operate in.

Quotes by Ted Sarandos

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

Quotes by Ted Kotcheff

I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.

Quotes by Ted Danson

When we made the first album, it was meant to be a snapshot of Mumford & Sons in 2009.

Quotes by Ted Dwane

We're not the first band who went to public school.

Quotes by Ted Dwane

We were proud of our first two records, but the parameters were pretty narrow. We didn't have full drums, for example. There were just so many limitations to that setup, and we really fully explored them.

Quotes by Ted Dwane

The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.

Quotes by Ted Baillieu

When I was ten, I did my first show. It was 'Annie.'

Quotes by Taylor Louderman

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

Quotes by Taylor Dayne

My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.

Quotes by Taylor Dayne

When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.

Quotes by Taylor Kinney

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

Quotes by Taslima Nasrin

When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.

Quotes by Tate Donovan

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.

Quotes by Tatyana Ali

The Lumiere brothers first exhibited moving pictures in Paris in 1896. A year later, there was a private showing at the Yildiz palace in Istanbul.

Quotes by Tariq Ali

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

Quotes by Tao Lin

It's human when you get the sense that somebody likes you or is attracted to you - unless you're just completely repulsed by the person - I find that my first reaction is to entertain the idea.

Quotes by Tara Lynne Barr

During my first semester of college, I raised my hand in a class and asked the professor to define a word I didn't know. The word was holocaust, and I had to ask because, until that moment, I had never heard of it.

Quotes by Tara Westover

When I was 17, I went to Brigham Young University. That was the first time I had set foot in a classroom.

Quotes by Tara Westover

I was waiting for all other actresses to wear a bikini first so I can just follow the bandwagon.

Quotes by Tanushree Dutta

To what extent a film works is beyond me. My first film 'Aashiq Banaya Aapne' did wonders at the box office. Then 'Chocolate' was also quite popular, but it didn't have the same effect as the first one.

Quotes by Tanushree Dutta

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

Quotes by Tamra Davis

At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.

Quotes by Tamsin Egerton

When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.

Quotes by Tamara Tunie

First we must learn to love nature. Then comes conservation.

Quotes by Tamilisai Soundararajan

When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.

Quotes by Tammy Baldwin

Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

Quotes by Talcott Parsons

One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.

Quotes by Tahl Raz

ReadyMade's first three issues dished out instructions for all sorts of kitschy crafts and odd projects: homemade wallets, Adirondack chairs, even taxidermy.

Quotes by Tahl Raz

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

Quotes by Tahar Ben Jelloun

The first film I worked in was Dev Anand's 'Hum Naujawan.'Then I went back to school and college.

Quotes by Tabu

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Quotes by Tacitus

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Quotes by T. S. Eliot

I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.

Quotes by T.I.

We built TransferWise focused on customer innovation. That means we build our product based first and foremost on our customers.

Quotes by Taavet Hinrikus

My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.

Quotes by T. D. Jakes

To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers' needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.

Quotes by Sylvia Mathews Burwell

'Putting People First' was progressivism revived and at its best.

Quotes by Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I'm trained in mixed martial arts. I started when I was 14 and did my first competition at 18. It was a grappling competition against all guys a weight category above me, and I got first place.

Quotes by Sydney Sweeney

I build my characters from the day they're born to the first page of the script.

Quotes by Sydney Sweeney

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.

Quotes by Sydney Wayser

I've been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction.

Quotes by Sylvia Day

I think I see a lot of artists struggling to make their first album perfect, and I've been there.

Quotes by Syd

My first job was, like, McDonald's.

Quotes by Swae Lee

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

Quotes by Swoosie Kurtz

People first, then money, then things.

Quotes by Suze Orman

My first solo was in church when I was five.

Quotes by Suzy Bogguss

I remain convinced that the most valuable use of time for a newly published author is to write a second book that's even better than the first, and a third that's better than the second, and on and on.

Quotes by Suzanne Brockmann

It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.

Quotes by Suzanne Fields

The first neurologist I saw just thought I was partying too much, and he stuck by that claim even after my family insisted that he was wrong.

Quotes by Susannah Cahalan

I was the first person in NYU Medical Center's history to be diagnosed with NMDAR encephalitis.

Quotes by Susannah Cahalan

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