All Quotes

My first real acting job was 'Skins' at eighteen years old, and I just kind of grew into myself in those two years; I would have done terribly if I'd have got that job at sixteen.
‐‐ Luke Pasqualino

My first real awareness of Chechnya came when I was a college student studying in Russia. I arrived in St. Petersburg about two months after Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated for her reports on Chechnya. I lived with an elderly woman and her grown children in an apartment that was not too far from the neighborhood military cadet school.
‐‐ Anthony Marra

My first real break was meeting my manager, Julie Gibson. She's the one that introduced me to Ford and Innovative and got me started.
‐‐ Daniella Alonso

My first real break was when my college sketch troupe, The State, was asked to contribute pieces for a new MTV show called 'You Wrote It, You Watch It.'
‐‐ Michael Ian Black

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.
‐‐ Peter Straub

My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay $25 for a cotton T-shirt that says 'Rolling Stones,' 'Lollapalooza,' or whatever. On the outside they're 10 or 15 bucks. We were the guys selling them for 10 or 15 bucks.
‐‐ Kevin Plank

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
‐‐ Neil Kinnock

My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case.
‐‐ Evelyn Glennie

My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
‐‐ Bill Hader

My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.
‐‐ Vanessa Hudgens

My first real kiss was actually on the set of 'The Vampire's Assistant' with Jessica Carlson who plays my crush in the movie. I was 15, she was 14. It was actually her first kiss too, so it was an interesting situation!
‐‐ Chris Massoglia

My first real kiss was in seventh grade. It was at the movie 'Hardball,' starring Keanu Reeves, and it was with my little sixth grade girlfriend. It was the first time we were alone. Her mom was sitting two rows in front of us!
‐‐ Matt Prokop

My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job.
‐‐ Graham Yost

My first real venture was a paintball company I started in Grade 10, when I was 16. After hearing about it from a friend, I realized my town didn't have a playing field. I did some research, spoke with other paintball company owners, and I started my own field the following summer.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism.
‐‐ Tim Cahill

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.
‐‐ Johnny Rivers

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.
‐‐ Paulina Porizkova

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
‐‐ Douglas MacArthur

My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.
‐‐ George Edward Woodberry

My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.
‐‐ Hasil Adkins

My first record deal was an independent record deal back in 1995 or early 1996.
‐‐ Joe Nichols

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
‐‐ Bill Wyman

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.
‐‐ Mika

My first record was made in Termonfeckin, which is a small town on the north-east coast of Ireland. I had been in London, but it didn't click. So, at home, I didn't think about making something, just whether something could be made. There was no grand plan.
‐‐ James Vincent McMorrow

My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion.
‐‐ Jimmy Smith

My first records are integral because I made them, you know, and I'm going to learn from those mistakes.
‐‐ Bill Callahan

My first responsibility is to be selfish for New Jersey.
‐‐ Rodney Frelinghuysen

My first responsibility is to keep America safe.
‐‐ Jeff Fortenberry

My first restoration was on 'Napoleon,' trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.
‐‐ Kevin Brownlow

My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.
‐‐ Sandra Bullock

My first role was an angel in the nursery nativity. I spotted my mum halfway through and shouted over someone else's lines to ask if she liked my costume. I've learnt not to do that now.
‐‐ Emily Berrington

My first role was in the George Gershwin musical 'Crazy for You' at the Orlando Repertory Theatre when I was 11 - I grew up in Florida - and I wasn't old enough to be in it, but they let me anyway. I was just this little shrimp in a leotard.
‐‐ Aubrey Peeples

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
‐‐ Bill Bryson

My first sales assessment, they tell you your strong points, and they told me I was the emotional salesman, the one who could really connect with people by making them feel comfortable. Once someone told me that, I couldn't get past how manipulative it made me feel.
‐‐ Katie Nolan

My first scene was a streaking scene, I had to streak at a footy game, that's how I get introduced.
‐‐ Ben Nicholas

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.
‐‐ Jean-Marie Lehn

My first score for 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy, 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' was the beginning of my journey into the world of Tolkien, and I will always hold a special fondness for the music and the experience.
‐‐ Howard Shore

My first season with Pittsburgh was 1969. We were still in the old NFL. My second year, we moved to the AFC when the leagues merged. I went to the Pro Bowl that season, and there must have been nine Raiders and nine Chiefs. I got to know all those guys.
‐‐ Joe Greene

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.
‐‐ Conrad Hall

My first series, I wouldn't even know where to get a clip of it. It was called 'Cracking Up.' It was on 'FOX' in 2004.
‐‐ David Walton

My first series regular was on a TV show called 'Starved,' which was so many years ago, and I was the only guy they brought in. So I go in, I read, it goes well. The next day I hear I got the job, and I rejoiced.
‐‐ Sterling K. Brown

My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories of a very flimsy type, and also a work of a much more ambitious character, 'The Lives of the Black Letter Saints.'
‐‐ Annie Besant

My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'
‐‐ Trey Parker

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.
‐‐ Nigel Dennis

My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.
‐‐ Ted Dekker

My first sex scene - and it was with myself.
‐‐ Judge Reinhold

My first shoot was on a rooftop in swimsuits with two plus-size models who were curvy and voluptuous and beautiful, and they taught me so much about being beautiful in any shape or size.
‐‐ Hayley Hasselhoff

My first short story sale was to a magazine that sat on the story forever... and never did publish it.
‐‐ Cullen Bunn