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First Quotes


"I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it."


"I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things."


"The first clothing line I had was called Very Rue. Then we changed the name and moved to QVC, and the name became A Touch of Rue."


"The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi."


"The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater."


"The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made."


"I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets."


"First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III."


"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."


"It's exciting to do something like this because usually what happens in theater is that, after the first or second reading of a play, it falls apart completely and the rehearsal process is such that you begin to pick up the pieces and put it back together again."



"It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified."


"The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles."


"In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made."


"I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place."


"Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice."


"I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching."


"We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show."


"My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI."


"The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn't have been made at all."


"And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable."


"The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry."


"Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977."


"First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis."


"I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me."


"Anytime I hear that somebody's really rich, the first question is, 'Do you do anything with it? Or do you, like, chill? You just sit on it?'"


"Manage yourself first and others will take your orders."


"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."


"My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood."


"Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance."


"We're doing a lot of inspection on the leading edge of our wing on 114 and 121, the first two flights."


"George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers."


"Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit."


"It was weird because I'd only been in L.A. for about six months and I had my first feature."
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