First Time Quotes - Page 9

• Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Real, Childhood, Way

  "Chef Anthony Bourdain". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 18, 2010.

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• It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Country, Jobs

  Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”

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• I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

  Jeff Bridges

  Movie, Ideas, Directors

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• I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.

  Jeff Bridges

  Team, Player, Ideas

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• You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.

  Jeff Bridges

  Jobs, Block, Kids

  "Tron Legacy Set Interview: Jeff Bridges". Interview with Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. March 15, 2010.

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• I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

  Alton Brown

  Travel, College, Firsts

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• Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.

  Alton Brown

  Children, Pbs, Cooking

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• First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Writing, Kissing, Romantic Love

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 38.

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• They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.

  Sitting Bull

  Giving Up, Land, Want

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• I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials.

  William S. Burroughs

  Art, Growing Up, Children

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• When you start a movie, it's not like other kinds of work that you have when you know your boss for years or colleagues for years. You're meeting everyone, mostly, for the first time. You have to get comfortable with those people so you can perform, because the first thing that is going to shut you down is any kind of anxiety.

  Nicolas Cage

  Years, People, Boss

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• Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

  Michael Caine

  Stars, America, Titles

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• Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

  Michael Caine

  Careers, Awards, Firsts

  "Success? I never expected it, says Caine" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 1999.

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• A lot of people don't know the first time I was ever on national television I was a 'Soul Train' dancer.

  Nick Cannon

  People, Dancer, Soul

  "Nick Cannon: 'Soul Train' Rebirth Is A Full-Circle Moment For Me (VIDEO)". HuffPost Live, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2013.

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• The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I'm still skiing. So, we'll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Years, Snow

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• Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.

  Hugo Chavez

  Running, Book, Reality

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• When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

  Kurt Cobain

  Should Have, Band, Firsts

  "The Pixies Talk About Their Reunion, New Music and a Missing Band Member" by Andrew Romano, www.thedailybeast.com. September 20, 2013.

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• The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

  Robert Cormier

  Beautiful, Writing, Brain

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• Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.

  Ann Coulter

  Country, Usa, Proud

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• I don't want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that's what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.

  Simon Cowell

  Years, Want, Firsts

  "Piers Morgan Live", edition.cnn.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: "How are you?" and "I want to work with Johnny Depp."

  Penelope Cruz

  Two, Want, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love.

  Willem Dafoe

  Challenges, Mind, Firsts

  "Willem Dafoe: 'Don't make this into a crackpot profile, please'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2013.

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• The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.

  Claire Danes

  Patriotic, Firsts, September

  Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Party, Use, Dinner

  "Seriously...I'm Kidding". Book by Ellen DeGeneres, 2011.

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• The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime's Funniest Person in America. And that's a really tough title to travel around with when you're not even known.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Travel, America, People

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