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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
~By Patrick Marber ~


We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.
~By Tom Araya ~


Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.
~By Marlee Matlin ~


I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.
~By Ike Turner ~


I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.
~By Ed Gillespie ~


In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.
~By Frank Church ~


I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.
~By Jeff Bridges ~


I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.
~By Adam Rickitt ~


I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.
~By Steve Burton ~


Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
~By Herman Melville ~


I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.
~By Daniel Morgan ~


The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
~By Vin Diesel ~


When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.
~By John Deacon ~


I think my first bikini, I was four and it was polka dotted and I had a big belly and I looked dashing.
~By Ashley Scott ~


A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.
~By Helen Reddy ~


For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.
~By Richard J. Needham ~


When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.
~By Agnes Macphail ~


It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because it was no better in particular than any other record I'd done.
~By Leo Kottke ~


Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.
~By Ben Nighthorse Campbell ~


I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
~By Ralph Bakshi ~


To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
~By Walther Bothe ~


And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before.
~By Joel Coen ~


Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
~By Simone Weil ~


If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.
~By Brad Paisley ~


I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming.
~By Peter Camejo ~


I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.
~By Sue Grafton ~


We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television.
~By Roma Downey ~


I told them, you can succeed - it's not likely the first time, maybe 25 per cent, but you CAN succeed. You can also die. By April 16 they had already been to camp III, well ahead of most teams.
~By Anatoli Boukreev ~


First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
~By Bruce Jenner ~


We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.
~By Johannes Stark ~


First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
~By Beau Bridges ~


Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.
~By Lance Burton ~


When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.
~By Kinky Friedman ~


Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~


First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck.
~By A. I. Bezzerides ~


The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
~By John Updike ~


Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
~By Saul Alinsky ~


I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
~By Michael J. Fox ~


But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
~By Kate Adie ~


I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.
~By Connie Mack ~


One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
~By Aiden Wilson Tozer ~


I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.
~By Phil Crane ~


Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
~By Stephen Leacock ~


This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove.
~By Laurel Clark ~


The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.
~By Richard Morris ~


Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
~By Jacob August Riis ~


Our first intuitions are the true ones.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~


It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.
~By Cybill Shepherd ~


I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
~By A. R. Ammons ~


When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.
~By Dennis Eckersley ~


Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).
~By Frederik Pohl ~


Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.
~By Ben Kingsley ~


Being on the cover of a magazine with my son is the best thing ever. It took me 18 years to get my first cover, he gets one at 8 months.
~By Cindy Margolis ~


Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.
~By Arthur Rock ~


Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
~By Wally Lamb ~


I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.
~By Anita Hill ~


Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.
~By Bill Shuster ~


That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost.
~By Lynn Johnston ~


The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
~By Edmund Burke ~


Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we'll do well as a party.
~By Tom Coburn ~


Although Patterson Beams was not my first plug-in, I knew from the beginning that I would write it, because the single biggest time consuming factor for me was editing each beam manually.
~By Robert Patterson ~


At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
~By Roman Jakobson ~


Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
~By Angela Carter ~


We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.
~By Greg Ginn ~


The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.
~By Jacques Delors ~


We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
~By Amy Tan ~


There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.
~By Matt Drudge ~


The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
~By Louis Dudek ~


The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.
~By Linda Tripp ~


When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
~By Andrew Coyle Bradley ~


I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.
~By Scott Hamilton ~


I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
~By L. Neil Smith ~


Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~


When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.
~By Penelope Cruz ~


It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
~By Florence Nightingale ~


Well firstly, that points certainly at the need for international standards on biometrics that would move in the same direction so that we can have the same technical requirements.
~By Asa Hutchinson ~


First off, the PS2 and PSP can play against each other online.
~By Tim Page ~


Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
~By Moliere ~


When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.
~By Matt Cameron ~


I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the views of the United States Government as to some of the problems confronting us.
~By James F. Byrnes ~


The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
~By Sigmund Freud ~


Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.
~By Eugen Herrigel ~


I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.
~By Minnie Driver ~


First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.
~By Philip Emeagwali ~


I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.
~By Javier Bardem ~


At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~


You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
~By Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis ~


The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.
~By Julie Christie ~


I started playing Madden back in 1993 because that was the first year I actually made it into the game and that was a big thrill. When you're in Madden, you've made it, baby.
~By Michael Strahan ~


Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?
~By Conrad Veidt ~


During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.
~By Philip Emeagwali ~


First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~


You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
~By Ethel Barrymore ~


Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.
~By Brett Favre ~


The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~


As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.
~By Bobby Ray Inman ~


Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
~By Mary Wortley Montagu ~


For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN.
~By Connie Chung ~


I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~


Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
~By George Washington ~

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