I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.
It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.
To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used.
The first thing I said to myself on 9/11 was, 'There go our civil rights.' I found out by comparing notes later that George Carlin and I both said that at the exact same time. That's the first thing that popped into our head.
The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B.J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I'd be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, 'sure!' That...
My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.
Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.
A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
First episodes are difficult things to write.
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.
Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather than what you think, consider instead how you feel. Look to the nature of things. Feel your choices and decisions. It just might change everything.
It's just something I've always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.
Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.
Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!
The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.
When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember.
Subtlety is the mark of confidence and is thus by far the hardest thing for a writer to achieve.
When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things...
