Firsts Quotes

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

I had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

To me the thing with ‘Grease’ was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.

I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That’s why I’m so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.

I don’t feel that because I’m First Lady, I’m very different from what I was before. It can happen to anyone. After all, it has happened to anyone.

The first rough draft of history.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

That’s how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.

When you’re smart on crime, you start off by recognizing that both the victim, first of all, the victim, but also the person who did the crime are both human.