#first

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#big #coaster #construct #first #good

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#arts #band #big #big band #cal

When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#everybody #everything #fact #first #improvise

I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#family #first #four #got #i

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery. ↗

— Janet Erskine Stuart

#first #great #great thing #hard #hard thing

From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#became #breathing #convinced #dust #first

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#already #books #busy #first #first time

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#american president #bush #call #first #george

I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law. ↗

— Harry Hamlin

#current #current events #delved #enjoyed #events

It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad. ↗

— Daryl Hannah

#absolutely #bad #first #her #i