#irs

What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of duress, or I chose to study them because they represented some kind of historical event, as it impacted on them or as they helped to create it. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#chose #create #duress #event #first

I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person. ↗

— Joanna Trollope

#am #chance #chapters #characters #develop

First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition. ↗

— LaToya London

#felt #first #how #i #me

When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#badly #call #change #could #dad

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf. ↗

— Martin Luther

#branch #climb #each #fall #first

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#first #i #just #novels #onion

The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#been #cast #first #first time #history

On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#deafness #developed #did #exactly #fact

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#conducting #could #first #go #got

When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks. ↗

— Jessie Matthews

#began #biggest #camera #complex #feel