Quotes of: First Keyword

Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.

Joyce Carol Oates

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?

Jodi Picoult

Having so many close calls in my career, it was such an awesome feeling to get that first world title.

Joel Parkinson

Never dance in a puddle when there's a hole in your shoe (it's always best to take your shoes off first).

John D. Rhodes

Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.

Jim Sensenbrenner

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

Joe Slovo

My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

John Searles

When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.

John Slattery

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

I sold my first screenplay six months before 'Glee,' but they had the option for a year and now it's back with me.

Dianna Agron

Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.

Daniel Breaker

In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.

Dennis Banks

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy. I wrote about everyday stuff.

Dionne Bromfield

At school, myself and some pals, all football-daft, divided up the old English First Division and wrote off to half a dozen clubs each asking for a trial.

Drew Busby

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.

Drew Carey

Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.

Damien Chazelle

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.

David Herbert Donald

She says that I wore some pretty sexy leather pants to that first meeting, but I don't remember.

Dick Ebersol

I judge preschool teachers and actresses shamelessly. The first five minutes I meet them.

Diane Farr

One of the attractions for me of having 'Watchmen' made into the first Motion Comic was just that - it was breaking new ground.

Dave Gibbons