The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. – Hans Urs von Balthasar
Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn’t like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn’t have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think. – George Martin
I’m going to go do a Netflix series. It’s straight-to-series, 10 episodes, probably go for three seasons. I’m going to direct the pilot and hopefully the last episode of the first season. The show is ‘Seven Seconds.’ – Gavin O’Connor
Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That’s a very interesting concept. – Harvey Korman
I remember when I started off, my first car was a Kia Spectra. With a spoiler kit and some rims. – Gio Gonzalez
All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers. – Hjalmar Branting
Since SpaceX’s very beginnings, they have talked about recovering and reusing at least the first stages of their rockets. – Henry Spencer
When I was younger, I was always being told I had a period face, but ‘Bel Ami’ was my first shot at it. – Holliday Grainger
One can’t judge Wagner’s opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don’t intend to hear it a second time. – Gioachino Rossini
If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene. – Henry Rollins
Heritage Action is a self-interested fundraising organization led by a former Giuliani staffer who is not taking counsel from real conservatives… It is a worthless organization to the conservative movement. I’ll be the first to say that. – Geoff Davis
My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called ‘Hey, Dude.’ That was my first real paid scriptwriting job. – Graham Yost
I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital. – H. G. Bissinger
As plans for the first lunar landing started to be made, nobody had really thought about who would be out first. – Henry Spencer
Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last. – Howard Jacobson
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. – Helen Dunmore
‘Gilmore Girls’ was the first show I ever worked on and was my absolute favorite show at the time. – Hayley McFarland
I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species. – George Bentham
J. J. Abrams is a director that I’ve admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote – including ‘Regarding Henry,’ which I was in. – Harrison Ford
I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air. – George Combe
