- Nov 07, 2020
First Quotes
On beginnings, and what a 'first' really changes.
The quotes gathered here treat 'first' loosely: a rookie athlete crediting the teammates who set the tone early, a filmmaker's take on what should scare an audience right away, and a physicist weighing what can and can't be known first. If early relationships resonate, see our First Love.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up abroad, and when I first passed through London in the 1970s, it seemed a drab and provincial place.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget.
- Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I built miniatures, and that was actually the first thing I did professionally in the film industry. It was a demonstrable skill that I had, so I worked as a model maker.
- Division
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- Nov 07, 2020
ILM was the first company that I had worked at that had a computer-graphics division.
- Nov 07, 2020
The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
- Illustration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any match, making a lot of first serves is very important, especially for me.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When there's work to be done in Colorado, for Colorado, we should look to skilled Coloradans first.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020