Firsts Quotes
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I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way - though it's quite strenuous on the fingertips.
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When I first went to New York, I didn't really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn't really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.
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There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.
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The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.
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I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.
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Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.
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If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.
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Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
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It's injustice. It's wrong. The pipeline companies didn't get the permission. They didn't do the things they should have done in the first place. They tried to just bully their way through there and they got stopped. But they're not really stopping.
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Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.
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speaking with, uh, about the vocal choreography, one of the first groups that I worked with was a group called the Cadillacs, which was uh, an exceptionally talented group. They all moved well and they sort of established Cholly Atkins's style. In other words they basically put me on the map, and everybody would look at them and see their choreography and they wanted to know who did it, so they would tell them.
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When I was really young, I gravitated towards the visual arts first. I feel that's what comes most naturally to me. I've always had an immediate proclivity towards making visual art and I was a really tactile kid.
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Once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.
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Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.
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Becoming the first Canadian male to win a Major Championship, especially being the Masters, was a dream come true.
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When Nancy Reagan was newly the first lady of California, Joan Didion came and had an hour-long interview. She thought it went great, and then Joan Didion just eviscerated her in the most - possibly not inaccurate - but in the most devastating way.
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Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress
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I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
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I'd like to be the romantic lead one day, but I've got to grow my hair first.
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I always call myself a stuntman first and then an actor.
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Ialways think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians. So I'm never quite sure why we eat Turkey like everybody else.
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.
