Firsts Quotes

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music.

I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

First of all, Mets fans despise me.

Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.

I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.

The idea of the divine-human friendship originated with God. Had not God said first 'Ye are my friends?' (John 15:14)

I suppose it is a bit of a date that we're having at the moment. As is usually the case you don't get married on a first date, you've got to go out a few times before you make any big decisions.

Sure, I'd love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.

Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.

It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader.

You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.

In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

I am concerned about the economy. I was the first one laid off.

I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the '60s.

With chemicals, it's shoot first and ask questions later.

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

The first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it.

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.

I think first of all you have to be there for the right reason.

If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.

First I was 'angry,' then 'spiritual.' Now I don't know what I am.

To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.

I remember Tetro was a big deal to me at that time. It was going from zero to one: Never having been in a movie, a person who had no relationship to any of that, and that was my first movie.

For me, each one of those experiences stands on its own. The first one was with Steven Spielberg, who helped me to get an agent and vouch for me, and that gave me the confidence to continue.

I got turned down for a million jobs until I got my first movie with Francis [Ford Coppola].

I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa which spoiled the hell out of me.

My first cut is always pretty similar to the final cut.

What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.

The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it

Our first show, A Little Nightmare Music, encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.

You know, I have a kid on my own, and I know how busy it is, the first weeks and the first month.

With the movies, you do your preparation on your own. It's much more internalized and ... the actual performance is a kind of, just trying to capture one moment at a time, for the first time.