It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
Don DeLillo
CultureIndependencePictureFirst
I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.
Elliot Richardson
TruthJusticeSaidFirstIndividual
I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.
Amelie Nothomb
WorkSomeoneFirstAlwaysMovement
First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.
Bill Kurtis
GoodFeelCowEdgeChicagoFirst
The writing is the first thing that goes when I get a little down. Just like... in terms of how I feel, it's like the writing is in the top five percent, and then that's the first part that gets shaved off, and I start down a little bit.
Tony Earley
WritingStartFeelDownFirstTop
I never thought my first role in a film would be a grandmother.
Sasha Pivovarova
ThoughtGrandmotherNeverFirstRole
I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978.
Mary Steenburgen
FirstGotMovieJackSouthCard
'What is this', and 'How is this done?' are the first two questions to ask of any work of art. The second question immediately illuminates the first, but it often doesn't get asked. Perhaps it sounds too technical. Perhaps it sounds pedestrian.
James Fenton
WorkArtQuestionsDoneAskFirst
My first instinct is always to fight back because ever since I was a kid, that's what I've always had to do to survive.
James Arthur
FightSurviveBackFirstKidAlways
My first time overseas was taking 10,000 tons of beer to Vietnam.
John F. Kelly
TimeBeerFirst TimeFirstVietnam
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
Jean Cocteau
SocietyFreeTryingYouTryFirst
My long-range mission is to be the first athlete to win the Nobel Prize.
Ernie Banks
WinMissionAthleteFirstPrize
There's nothing in this world like being the first to discover some fundamental fact of nature. It's profoundly satisfying.
Carolyn Porco
NatureWorldNothingFirstDiscover
When I first heard Kraftwerk, I thought they were an American band singing in German.
Jean-Michel Jarre
SingingThoughtAmericanBandFirst
I am proudest of that first novel, 'Trust,' of anything I have written. I don't think I've had such intense energy since.
Cynthia Ozick
TrustI AmEnergyThinkFirstNovel
When I was growing up, you would put on a KISS record or a UFO or Aerosmith record and listen to it from the first song through the last song. It's been so long since a band has put out a record like that.
Steven Adler
KissGrowing UpSongLongYouFirst
The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.
William Bell Riley
ScienceEvolutionImportantFirst
Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.
Ronnie Spector
MusicCareCareerProfessionalFirst
You have to have a first job to learn how to act, do interviews, pose for photo shoots, and negotiate how you'll say lines with writers. My first network show, 'Cavemen,' just happened to be one that was culturally reviled.
Nick Kroll
JobLearnYouSayPoseFirst
When I was writing my first novel, 'Where the Line Bleeds,' which had young black men as its main characters, I was very invested in telling the story and also very worried about the effects the story would have.
Jesmyn Ward
MenWritingStoryBlackYoungFirst
Since I left the Premier League the first time, I wanted to come back.
Mohamed Salah
TimeBackFirst TimeFirstLeft
I have been interested in neon for a long time. The first neon I made was in 2006, using the word 'America.'
Glenn Ligon
TimeAmericaLongLong TimeFirst
The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.
Isaac Newton
BestMoreFirstThingsExperiments
Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.
John Hickenlooper
PeopleCityTryingRunFirstHard
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