Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
I'll be the first to admit I wasn't very happy doing what I did [escorting] nor was I very talented at it, so perhaps that's what worked to make it boring for me. However it's hard for me to imagine that a lot of young women who would enjoy and be good at being an escort.
It is well to remember that freedom through the press is the thing that comes first. Most of us probably feel we couldn't be free without newspapers, and that is the real reason we want the newspapers to be free.
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.
I don't know what any of my tunes are about, they're just out there. I'm not good with words. I just say the first thing that comes into my head
If at first you don't succeed, You're not an Alpha
The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. '
If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs - you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.
Every time you open the paper now, there seems to be another celebrity getting arrest for masturbation. First, it was Peewee Herman and then George Michael. If masturbation's a crime, I should be on death row.
I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.
Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.
Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.
For a psychoanalyst to be any good. . . he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place.
There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.
I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.
I trust my mom with anything. If I have a problem, my mom is always the first person I go to.
When I first moved to L. A. , I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy.
My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.