First Quotes · Page 91

One of my first public performances was singing hymns at a funeral for a friend of our family.

— Christopher Jackson

First six overs are important because if you put runs on board, it will take the pressure off the other batsmen.

— Prithvi Shaw

The AAP was not the first group of well-meaning outsiders in politics.

— Abhijit Banerjee

My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.

— Dwayne Johnson

Flamenco was probably the first music that I may have heard as a baby, because my father played flamenco.

— Robert Trujillo

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.

— A. E. van Vogt

When I listen to the first songs I wrote in Rammstein, I have to smile because it was so silly at time.

— Till Lindemann

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

— Peter Shaffer

I think every person deserves two marriages, because you may not get the first one right. You really never knew. That's why…

— Tichina Arnold

No matter how much I plan the overall arc of the character, you get there day one on the film and you…

— Lin Shaye

The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are…

— Vidya Balan

Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but…

— Jeff Bridges

When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til…

— Wayne Kramer

When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of various celebrities.…

— Rebecca Pidgeon

I'm here to break boundaries, man. That's all. I'm here to be the first so that the people after me don't have…

— ASAP Rocky

I enjoy the TV series 'Dexter,' where there's a reason for every kill. Quentin Tarantino is a favourite, and a 'Kill Bill'…

— Bipasha Basu

Common would come to my house and give me a freestyle verse. I'd make a new beat for it and put it…

— Clinton Sparks

My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at…

— Odette Annable

I didn't get married until I was forty because I wanted to be stable when I got married. I think I just…

— Kurt Fuller

The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James…

— Jerry Leiber

I went in, and there, in the front room, a converted bedroom, sat the first radio I had ever seen. The equipment…

— Waite Hoyt

I remember thinking when I was younger - we used to take holidays to Spain and France, and I just thought I…

— William Moseley

At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17-…

— Dan Stevens

I don't know who made the first Aquaman joke. I'm sure it was comics readers; maybe we all did. But it's the…

— Geoff Johns

The truth is, you don't ever decide on a role, not when you first begin. You audition for the role, and you're…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

'The Full Monty' was my first feature script, and I wasn't that skilled at it.

— Simon Beaufoy

On every show I've ever done, one of the first network notes is, 'You have to put a time clock on this…

— Brad Hall

Programs that bring the arts to young kids are always the first to be cut. It's mind-boggling to me.

— Julie Andrews

Obviously, I write all of my lyrics from my heart and my life first.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.

— Jack Kilby

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

— Paul R. Ehrlich

Protesters can't violate First Amendment rights. Only the government can do that.

— Kirsten Powers

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

— Steven Spielberg

My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

— Sara Zarr

My first diet was in the first grade! Tuna fish and mustard with yogurt on the side.

— Wendy Williams

We live in the United States. British settlers founded the first colony in North America. And English is our language.

— Trish Regan

Any time first time out, you just want to make sure you can get hitters out again.

— Clayton Kershaw

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

— June Allyson

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.

— Michel Faber

I want to look at the whole package, but I definitely want to protect the middle-class taxpayer, first and foremost.

— Kay Hagan