Bill Viola Quotes

I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.

The first time I watched a World Cup game was in 2002. That was the first time Senegal had ever qualified for the World Cup, and it was great moment that I will never forget in my life. I was ten years old at the time, and that experience of watching my country in a World Cup is what inspired me to become a footballer.

I've always loved music since I was a little kid.

Schoolkids - black and white - would call me Kunta Kinte as a cuss. If ever my hair was particularly messy, if ever I looked scruffy at school, I would be called Kunta Kinte. My first impression was that it was bad to be African and bad to be associated with him.

I'm a bartender's son. Some things you never forget.

I was watching a black and white television in Cairo, MI., at my grandparents' house, and I watched Neil Armstrong step on the moon. At that point, it set the bit for me to be an astronaut, and it was kind of like a dream, but it really wasn't reality.

The first record I was really into was the Drifters' 'When My Little Girl Is Smiling.'

I remember the location of 'Apoorva Sahodarangal.' As a kid, it was an exciting location to be in.

The first rock record I ever bought was 'Great Balls of Fire.' I was real little, and I went to Atlanta to get it.

I'll never forget my mom coming into the room middle of the night with YouTube videos of hypnotizing people saying, 'You're happy, you're going to be okay,' and she just played it in my ear as I slept.

I met Betty Moore when she entered Mitchell High School as a freshman, and that was it - period, exclamation point!

I'll never forget the moment in class when I went from being afraid to fail, to expecting to fail. This informs everything I do.

The first time I ever went on set was during 'Fiza' when I was in Class X.

I'll never forget this memory: I was at home, and suddenly my father came home with 10 footballs for me. I lived by a football pitch, so every day, I'd take the ball and practice shooting.

The first musical I ever saw was 'Ragtime.'

My first day at Duddingston Primary is probably my first memory.

Regular school is one bajillion times easier than online school. I want friends; I want a social life. I want that experience in my life.

We should never forget the inevitable, as we will lose everything eventually. So, why fret over any kind of security? The idea is to just fly and experience it all while it lasts.

You can see something on film, but until you're really out there playing against somebody and you see him for the first time, you don't really know.

The reason I started dancing in the first place was my dad took me to see 'Bring In 'da Noise, Bring In 'da Funk' when I was 9.

I remember the first time I ever wrote down a song was when I was 6. I was at my friend Emma's house, and we wrote a song called 'Girls' Rules.'

I took dance from a very early age, although my first recital, I remember refusing to go onstage. I think I was three. It's funny because that stage was also my high school theater stage.

One of my first memories is running up and down the theatre at Wakefield Opera House.

I remember going to 'The Wood' and leaving my friend and my mom, who I came with, to go sit in the front row because I was so excited.

I played a bee! It was a Polish fairy tale we performed at school when I was seven or eight. I had wings fixed to me.