First Quotes
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'Rent' was my first professional job, ever.
Aaron Tveit
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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.
T.I.
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In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.
Gary Hamel
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It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.
Paddy Chayefsky
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I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.
Wayne Newton
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My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
Adam Brown
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
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Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.
Veerappa Moily
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And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.
Wanda Jackson
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When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
Rabih Alameddine
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When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year.
Jack McBrayer
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Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.
W. Averell Harriman
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The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'
Ed Weeks
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The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
Hailee Steinfeld
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I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.
Natalie Cole
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
Barry Levinson
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I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
Patrick Murray
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I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the negotiations between the government and the Sudanese rebels in the south. And then, slowly, I was speaking about Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and a few other places.
Wadah Khanfar
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When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way - a buck here, a buck there.
Harold Prince
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I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.
Laini Taylor
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My first vocation was dance.
Victoria Abril
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
Jaclyn Smith