#first thing

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#decision making #democracy #first #first thing #go

The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards. ↗

— Elia Kazan

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I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold. ↗

— Ray Dalio

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The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. ↗

— Peggy Fleming

#first #first thing #love #never #please

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously. ↗

— Stephen King

#awesome #concept #consider #even #first

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles. ↗

— Swoosie Kurtz

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First things first, second things never. ↗

— Shirley Conran

#first things #never #second #things

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#afghanistan #any #big #bigger #country

Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world. ↗

— Marcy Kaptur

#budgets #cannot #clean #clean up #continue