First Quotes
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
Laura Dekker
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
Patricia Riggen
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
Patrick Marber
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I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.
Randy Alcorn
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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
Zoe Lister-Jones
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Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
Taylor Swift
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
Vanessa Paradis
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I'm a novelist from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations of British Columbia, both small coastal reserves hugging the rugged shores of the west coast.
Eden Robinson
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
Vikas Swarup
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
Feist
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'
Laura Osnes
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Often, when I work with a vocalist, I like to focus on the melodies first.
Flume
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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
B. B. King
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
Vernon Howard
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For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.
Maika Monroe
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
Samuel P. Huntington
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Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
Hank Sauer
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The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting.
Bryan Adams
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
Fat Joe
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'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.
Hailee Steinfeld
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I was in fittings for the first costume even before I knew I was even going to be 'Deathlok.'
J. August Richards