Firsts Quotes
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All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.
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I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.
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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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I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.
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I knew it the first of the summer, I knew it the same at the end, That you and your love were plighted, But couldn't you be my friend?
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The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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The first question that comes out of everybody's mouth, 'Did you bite the head off a bat?' And I did, so, next.
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Stylists aren't for me. I tried to use one when I first started working in the US, but I didn't click with anyone.
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The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water
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The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.
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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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But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.
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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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We petitioned to get access to film Suffragette at the Houses of Parliament and we whooped with joy when we were allowed in, as this is the first ever commercial film to shoot there.
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Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.
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Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again--until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other.
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There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?
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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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First thoughts are not always the best.
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What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll.
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I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the super popular (slasher-y) ones of the day back then. The first novel I ever loved as a kid was Frankenstein, and I was always a crazy Hitchcock and Polanski fan... but I never saw myself - a square spazzy girl from the suburbs - writing anything that would horrify anyone. Or so I thought.
