#first

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards. ↗

— Brian Eno

#always #contingent #first #getting #kind

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country. ↗

— John Ensign

#believe #building #community #country #first

Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#called #ever #first #friend #friends

The first eight songs we were using someone else's monitors and it is hard to follow the changes when you are jamming if you can't hear those who you are jamming with. ↗

— John Entwistle

#eight #else #first #follow #hard

My first language is Gaelic. ↗

— Enya

#gaelic #language

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#also #care #down #first #head

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#books #century #chemistry #city #could

The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#anything #because #connected #couple #dealing

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it. ↗

— Alicia Vikander

#casting #casting directors #chance #come #decided

It's the twenty-first century. Arriving to find a bunch of old dudes in brown robes would be equally weird. ↗

— Kendare Blake

#robes #twenty-first-century #equality