First Quotes
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson -
Carbondale, Ill. is where I went to college, and it's where I first started putting on shows.
Hannibal Buress
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I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms.
Yelena Baturina -
Often, when I work with a vocalist, I like to focus on the melodies first.
Flume -
You have an idea in your mind of how the first show will be. Since I was 15 years old in front of the mirror saying, "If I was in Priest, this is what I would do." But in truth, I don't remember any of it.
Richie Faulkner Judas Priest -
Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic.
Bai Ling -
Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.
Confucius -
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.
Tara Lynne Barr
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If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.
James Brown -
The Beatles did everything first, and they did it the best.
Taylor Momsen -
The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months.
Barton Gellman -
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
Carl Hiaasen -
To be a good actor you really have to want to act first.
Anthony Charles Edwards -
When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop.
Edgar Wright
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I think the 360 deals are what stands out to me, first and foremost. I never would have dreamed that record labels would be taking a piece of touring, merchandise, and everything else. The world has changed so dramatically from when we first started.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
The Strokes will never get anywhere after that first record.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, `God, how many songs do I have to write here?' It always feels like pressure.
Martin Gore Depeche Mode -
I knew that all South Indian language films were first made in Chennai and that Tamil Nadu is one of the biggest film-producing centres in the country. I wanted to be part of films here.
Nargis Fakhri -
Music should always be first.
Garth Brooks -
The cover was pebbled black leather, the pages onionskin, and he opened it carefully. It was his first Bible, the one his mother had given him, the one that had taken its time showing him what he was supposed to do with his life, his size, that voice of his. It was the one used for his ordination, and when he had buried his mother on a autumn hillside in Tennesee five years ago. King James. He didn't care about the scholars or the accuracy or the bringing of his church into whatever century they claimed it was these days; he cared about the poetry, and about the comfort it brought to those who needed to hear it.
Charles L. Grant
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Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
When I first did The Tracey Ullman Show, there were times when I could offer a solution on stage, and I could understand the writers.
Dan Castellaneta -
Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
Larry Wall -
My first gig with Metallica was at San Quentin State Penitentiary.
Robert Trujillo Metallica