#first

I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here. ↗

— Richard Serra

#billy wilder #came #eat #first #here

My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#amazing #around #backwards #baghdad #dad

'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and it meant a lot to me to finally get to play it after all these years. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#books #dark #ever #finally #first

I am an artist first and a photographer second. ↗

— Andres Serrano

#artist #first #i #i am #photographer

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level. ↗

— Roger Sessions

#another #ask #communicate #entertaining #experience

I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76. ↗

— Ted Shackelford

#daytime #december #doing #first #first time

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard. ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

#drunkard #first #first class #had #i

Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired. ↗

— John Shadegg

#benefits #elderly #first #germany #i

The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care. ↗

— John Shadegg

#cannot #care #choices #firsthand #free

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#detective story #did #first #i #my own