First Quotes · Page 93

Making my first record, I was really inspired by all the color palettes Sofia Coppola has in her films.

— Charli XCX

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

— Gail Sheehy

I always start everything with the weather, because the weather is the first thing that I notice when I wake up in…

— Julia Cameron

First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget.

— John Kitzhaber

'Threatz' was when I stepped into my own as an individual and one of the first songs we put on SoundCloud.

— Denzel Curry

It's probably the first type of music we had, rhythm, whether it's poetry or tapping.

— Shura

The first record I bought was actually Booker T and the MG's 'Red Beans and Rice.'

— Paul Rodgers

The first album was literally the first 12 songs I've ever written.

— Mat Kearney

It's, I mean, for me, it's the same as training with my crewmembers. We share the same first part of the flight.…

— Philippe Perrin

First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is…

— Vicente Fox

As of late, 'Boyz n the Hood' really impacted me because I grew up in that same neighborhood. It was the first…

— Wendy Raquel Robinson

I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, because there…

— Charles Guggenheim

It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The…

— Lois Lowry

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was…

— Scott Bakula

There is no substitute for hard work. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really…

— Mary Callahan Erdoes

We recorded the record on a Saturday afternoon March 30th and I heard the record for the first time on April 6th.…

— Lesley Gore

At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally…

— Michael Leunig

About Grade 9 and Grade 10, I had a fantastic drama teacher, and it was one of the first subjects I actually…

— Deborah Mailman

I experienced the heat when I was playing for Madrid. If we went to places like Sevilla early on in the season…

— Steve McManaman

I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white…

— Jonas Mekas

I'm a conservative first, and I believe that, if we do a better job of helping Americans understand what we're trying to…

— Jim DeMint

I sort of came out at the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s and I think it helped break my career.…

— Jewel

In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that…

— Amish Tripathi

The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar too high for yourself!…

— Bethany Mota

I remember the first scary movie I ever watched was 'Scream,' and I watched it at a sleepover.

— Jessica Rothe

It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.

— Suzanne Fields

Wanted to write fiction since I was 11, since I first read 'In Our Time' by Hemingway.

— Peter Heller

My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college…

— Camille Paglia

The whole heartbeat of the first record is young, which I think is what made it relatable to young girls.

— Kelsea Ballerini

The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.

— George Murray

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

— LeBron James

After having my first surgery in 2003, having an ACL replacement, I never thought I'd be able to compete again.

— Tito Ortiz

I can't pay her back, but what I can do is make her as happy as she thought I would when we…

— George Lopez

My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that…

— Jason Dolley

The first time I tried to cook pinto beans in a crockpot, I ain't know what a crockpot was.

— Tabitha Brown

My story sort of sounds ridiculous because the first movie I produced was 'E.T.'

— Kathleen Kennedy

When I first came to comics, it was, like, dudes. The feeling, the air, the presence is overwhelmingly male.

— Marjorie Liu

First off let me say, I've wanted to be an actress since I was a little girl.

— Paula Patton

We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.

— Carlos Ghosn

A lot of teams who go on to win trophies lose in quarter-finals or semi-finals first.

— Gareth Southgate