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I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.
When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.
When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.
First person to appreciate the good points of others is always special in life as he or she manifests his or her leadership through initiatives.
In my ministry, I teach my disciples, "Power first, then the Word. Go in and prophesy first, or demonstrate the power of God first in some way."
In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.
I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters
I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.
When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.
The first day, in particular, is always one of those weird days because you get ..., you're thrown into this new trailer - here's your wardrobe.
Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the structure intuitively.
Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave me my first job in politics.
I taught you to take the first step: to learn to believe in belief. And one day you will take the second step and find what is it you believe in.
I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I cant compare hearing aids to normal hearing.
I really enjoyed working on the 2009 film, 'Aliens in the Attic,' because it was shot in New Zealand and I got to visit there for the first time.
Writing and rewriting are the same thing to me. I don't believe what Allen Ginsberg said that "first thought, then - " I just don't believe that.
Here’s what I tell people now when they come to my shows: “First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or at least my economic package.”
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that.
I think that, by comparison with $2,000 bottles of grand cru Burgundies, first-rate barolos, which sell for under $100, are undervalued ten-fold.
It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
I got my MacBook in the first year at university, and that's really when I stopped playing live instruments and started geeking out on my laptop.
Comedy is frightening at first because you're opening yourself up. When it's just you and people hate it, you're like, "Oh God. Do they hate me?"
There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.
Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.
First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.
I think Nevada is going to really be the first true test of whether or not these candidates have particular strengths in particular demographics.
I gotta be dope first. I gotta be appealing to your senses, and to what you like first. Then the message happens. Then you relate to the message.
Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars.
I remember the first few months of the [Ronald] Reagan administration when all sorts of things happened too fast. We cannot allow that to happen.
I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.
The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.
Venice is like doing acid. If you can't take it with you after you either come down or move away, you were never really there in the first place.
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
I made my first trip west of the Hudson and it was a revelation. The naked musculature of the Rockies was overpowering and my painting responded.
You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." “That’s too bad,” said Jace, “since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.
My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.
No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.
Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.
I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.
First, I wanted to answer the question I'm most frequently asked: "How did you become who you are?" Well, you had to know John and Angelena Rice.
The first thing we do when we're born is we breathe in, and we cry. And the last thing we do when we die is we breathe out, and other people cry.
So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.
I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.
Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.