#first

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#ends #family #first #friends #gratification

I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#could #directors #discrimination #endure #first

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#art #background #candy #child #culture

For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#character #colin #crying #edition #emotional

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#chair #charlie #christmas #die #each

And I'd like to believe that's true, you know, kind of showing gay people in this kind of light and - where it's not about that, it's just about the characters for the first time, like those shows were. ↗

— Sean Hayes

#believe #characters #first #first time #gay

I can still picture myself riding in the back of a Bronco to a field party after a rainstorm. My mama will kill me for saying this, but my first beer, I was 15 and I didn't know what to do with it. I thought you were supposed to chug it. So I just downed the whole thing in one gulp. All my friends were like, 'Duuuuuuude!' ↗

— Dave Haywood

#back #beer #field #first #friends

The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

#american people #amnesty #closing #enforcement #enforcing

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#hands #least #monetary #money #over

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#admit #concern #does #first #himself