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Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.
When I first met with agents, they said, "Okay, you're going to play plumbers and mechanics and bus drivers and farmers. Go."
[Filming Payne] that was also the first time I worked with JoBeth Williams, which was also a case of not being the last time!
Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?
I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.
After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.
I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.
I think the first time I realized I was actually acting was during Felicity. Before that, I was just going along for the ride.
The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.
This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.
Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me.
Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first...at least 100 employees and often many more.
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn't yet understood the first thing about it.
The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity to share.
Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big.
The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'
Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.
If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.
Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.
A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.
The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.
The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.
There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.
We don't know Religion's death date but we know its birthday: The very night man experienced his first great fear of anything!
Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of “experts” who made them up in the first place.
Haymich finally drops the good-natured act. "you know who else, Katniss. You know who stepped up first." Of course I do. Gale.
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.
Do tell. It might be entertaining to see who gets to you first.” “Excuse me if entertaining you isn’t at the top of my agenda.
The first season, 'Supernatural' was very anthology-like. It was like a scary story of the week that the brothers would solve.
Out of routine comes inspiration. That's the idea, anyway. To grasp what's exceptional, you first have to know what's routine.
Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Barack Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.
Donald Trump is sort of the first candidate of his type that non-politician, true outsider, was coming to shake up the system.
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone. The first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee.
The first time I had sex, I didn't know what I was doing. It was a relief when the whole thing was over after just 45 minutes.
The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.
Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take.
Your first problem is relying on someone else's word. Always depend on yourself. No one will work as hard for you as you will.
I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.
The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars.
In a marriage, you and your partner come first. And unless you and your partner are happy, that kid's never going to be happy.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards
It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before.
I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.
I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.
I recall that, the first time I met a Geordie speaker, it was some days before I could understand a single word he was saying.