Firsts Quotes
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I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I'm a serious Turow fan.
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Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player." That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player." How can you tell?" It's PIPING hot!" Then blow on it first!
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Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.
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Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.
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My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.
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If I ever thought I wasn't the right guy for the job, I'd be the first person to fire myself.
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First thoughts are not always the best.
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This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.
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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.
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Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution, ... I must approve all the parts of a bill, or reject it in toto.
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Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.
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I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.
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Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.
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If you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.
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The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.
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A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.
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If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified in a crude shape, I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.
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You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.
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First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.
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Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.
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You have to be different, great or first.
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First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends
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Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best of his writing.
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I always call myself a stuntman first and then an actor.
