#the first thing

I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef's table... Unless they can identify what they're tasting, they don't get to cook it. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#blindfolded #chef #chefs #come #completely

We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

#deal #first #first thing #issues #look

But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#amateur #any #became #compose #did

So the first thing that I thought about was, 'How is this car going to handle?' But then after I'd been driving with it and practicing with it and I accomplished that, then I just kind of sat back. ↗

— Sean William Scott

#accomplished #after #back #been #car

Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#different #everybody #first #first thing #friends

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#born #days #did #eight #engagement

Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#first #first love #first thing #honest #i

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#arts #book #first #first thing #i