My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.
When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
Awareness is always the first step.
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
To break the pentameter, that was the first heave.
Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was for the first time. Just suppose. It doesn’t hurt to suppose. Say none of the other had ever happened. You know what I mean? Then what? I said.
There’s literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn’t otherwise have.
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
I’d be the first person to say I can’t write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I’m not Shakespeare. It’s not designed to be poetic.
The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.
I must admit I suffered a bit when I first came to England. But then I realised that there was nothing to be intimidated by, everybody had two legs.
The easiest job you’ll ever get is to try to make your first film. That’s the easy one to get, is the first film because nobody knows whether you can make a film or not.
In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe.
The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.
All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.
You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.