#first

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#beach #city #college #contests #crazy

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#beach #city #college #contests #crazy

First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode. ↗

— Anthony Michael Hall

#directing #episode #first #first of all #i

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#angel #assures #babe #before #born

I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film. ↗

— Conrad Hall

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By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#first #i #publications #rejection #rejection slips

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. ↗

— Robert Hall

#conscience #first #last #matters #prudence

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#concept #first #guy #i #out

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#else #endeavors #first #first time #idea

I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#different way #difficult #first #first time #forced