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My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do.
On my first trip to New York in the 1980s, the first place I wanted to visit was the Plaza Hotel, home to Kay Thompson's Eloise.
In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.
I was terrified. My first week, walking around in a teeny bikini, I kept crossing my arms over my chest because I was afraid I was going to fall out of the top of the suit. And I didn't know anything about technique or lighting.
A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.
Lyft is focused on the customer - the driver - as GM is. I've talked many times about our goal being, 'How we can put the customer at the center of what we do so we earn customers for life?' It's a very common goal of putting the customer first.
One of my first jobs was as a recipe tester for a PR agency. One week, the editor of 'Housewife' magazine called my boss and asked me to write a column - the cookery editor had gone away on a press trip. I was terrified.
The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.
Well, the first band was at nine, and I was on the road when I was 12 with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers.
When I was 5 years old, I got my first record. It was 'Flatt & Scruggs' Greatest Hits.' The second was 'The Fabulous Johnny Cash.'
When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.
The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramophone's inventor: Alexander Graham Bell.
I have tried to help build a framework that recaptures the First Amendment as a principle to empower all Americans, politically and personally, through access to plentiful, diverse communications spaces.
If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.
Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss video artist I learned about pretty early on. She's one of the first contemporary artists I knew about and was really drawn to.
We didn't wait for the renewable heat incentives to come into place; we wanted to be first to provide consumers with alternative ways to heat their homes.
Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA.
The first cellular systems didn't become commercially available until 1983. Most of the phones before then were in fact car phones.
One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on these shores by the Puritan John Winthrop, via the Gospel according to Saint Matthew.
Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.
It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence, and the second one came with the onset of early menopause.
My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.'
At first I imagined I'd write detective novels, because I loved 'Nancy Drew.'
There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing.
I always say Coach Trestman reminds me of the first Willy Wonka. Not the Johnny Depp one.
When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it.
This majority is working for America, and one of those ways is we have tremendously low unemployment. This economy has created millions of new jobs, and we are expecting growth this first quarter of somewhere higher than 4 percent.
While the budget resolution is a nonbinding blueprint, it is, nevertheless, an important guideline for Congress. Once the President's proposed budget is received by Congress on the first Monday of February, Congress generally goes to work on appropriating the funds required.
I had an Ultimate jersey on in my first video. I get a lot of comments about it, because a lot of tech people don't know anything about Ultimate.
When I first did 'Empire,' it was a severe break from everything I'd written up to that point, which is all very continuity-driven, super-heroic, and ethics and morals-infused. 'Empire' was a chance to break away from that.
My first inkling that I might have a yen for directing came when I realized I enjoyed creating plays for my various sports teams more than I actually liked playing the game.
When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the focal points of the campaign, and, in fact, my opponent attacked me for it.
Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.
The American people must be assured that no federal agency can trample their First Amendment rights.
We're doing a lot of inspection on the leading edge of our wing on 114 and 121, the first two flights.
The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights.
I translated an Emile Zola book, 'The Belly of Paris,' because I didn't find an existing translation that captured his sense of humor. Humor is the first victim of translation.
It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?
The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked.
I got my first show at Blum & Poe because Paul McCarthy postponed his show, and they came to my studio and asked me if I could put together a show in two weeks.
Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me.
First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl.
The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.
This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S.
The first obligation is to the French people and establish solidarity among our own citizens.
Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.
My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying.
I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first made it. The biggest thing I learnt was that you have to be pro-active. You can't be scared.
I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate was Greek, so I guess I kind of had that Greek destiny.
When the first American steps on the red dust of Mars, it's going to be because of computer scientists.
The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living.
My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.
I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
I started to think of 'Hidden Figures' as the first part of a mid-century African-American trilogy.
One of my first commercials was for a Samsung cellphone. It was made as a mini-movie.
My ambitions are less important than my well-being. My children come first.
First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.
I still miss my first car. Not a glamorous ride, but I must've put 60,000 miles in road trips on that thing.
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Of course my first goal is to save the balls. This is obviously the most important thing as a goalkeeper.
For me, the 'Three Stoppages' was a first gesture liberating me from the past.
The first 'Half-Life' movie treatment pitched to us climaxed with a tearful reunion between enslaved Vortigaunts and their Vortiwives and children. The last one I saw had Black Mesa invaded by a cavalry unit, just so as to feature a scene of bullsquids tearing into armored horses.
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