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'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.
When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician.
I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.
Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit.
When I first encountered the 'Sigma Force' novels - long before I became friends with Jim Rollins - a bookseller told me that these stories were about 'geeks with guns.' While not entirely accurate, that's pretty close to the mark, and that really speaks to me.
David Benioff can hardly be classified as an underdog. The 2002 film adaptation of his first novel, 'The 25th Hour,' was directed by Spike Lee and starred Edward Norton.
I first encountered fish jerky during a marlin tournament in Kona, Hawaii. It was steeped in the island flavors of ginger, soy, and pineapple.
Technically, fish can last up to half a year in a freezer, but their quality starts to slide after the first month.
John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested in are the writers who are most unlike me: for example, Denis Johnson.
The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it.
I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.
Forty-five years since I made my first paycheck, and I'm telling you that 'Breaking Bad' is as good as it gets.
Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It's a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myself.
If I was the leader of the House of Representatives, the first thing I would do is I would put in a very clean bill on reapportionment. And I would put a very clean bill in that says that corporations are not people.
Polar' is based on the first and a little bit on the second book and all the characters from those novels are in there. The story is based on the graphic novel, but when it came to the execution of the film I felt I couldn’t really make a movie without any dialogue.
I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.
The routers get involved in this and they know that on the path between this router and that router a certain percentage of the bandwidth is reserved to these things and a certain percentage of it is allowed on a first come first served basis.
At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.
I figured managing people was obvious - I'd tell someone what they needed to do and they'd do what I wanted. It turns out that's not the case. It was frustrating at first.
I hear so many startups talking about how they can raise VC instead of questioning whether they need it in the first place.
Inches matter. That's why they measure first downs. That's why they have a crew down there with those chains.
I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.
I've been through a lot, both personally and professionally, and the album that I started to record two and a half years ago is a different album from the one that exists today. I even changed the album title. First it was 'All I Want is Everything,' and now it's 'Jumping Trains.'
Superman was my first comic back in the '50s; that was me under the bedspread with the flashlight reading comic books.
In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made.
I'm married to the girl that I first went out with when I was 16. We were on and off for years; now we're married with a kid, so I don't have that many exes.
I did a lot of theater as a young actor in my early twenties, and my first few records really came from writing songs through the rehearsal processes.
I didn't have a contract for the first year of my time in NXT, and that was very stressful.
When I got into songs like 'Exist,' I was like, 'Okay, this riff has some bass sweeping in it, I'm definitely going to have to use a pick... but I guess I'll have to learn how to sweep first!'
In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to.
When I first heard about 'The Flash,' I said, 'No thanks.' I thought I'd just be running around in a union suit.
First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.
A first preview is not exactly a pleasant experience for directors and actors. You're never as raw as when the audience first comes in.
In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.
One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.
In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but he thought it might be; immediately I made the proof and found that it was gold.
When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.
My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.
What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'
When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.
In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.
Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.
Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order.
There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.
Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.
I made my final collection in college in London using Irish handwoven wool. That is how I discovered Ireland first; I just fell in love with it, really.
When I first started doing influencer marketing for my company Due, I lost my shorts with literally no return on my investment.
I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.
First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician.
The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.
What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.
I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.
We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.
It almost seems I was writing two separate books, the first one about the time before I went on the court and the second one about the many, many terms I was on the court.
Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was.
In college, I was a cartoonist at 'The Daily Northwestern.' So I draw myself. I was an animator. But basically, I went to Northwestern to major in English, wound up in college for two years. Studied animation there. Came to Disney. My first week at Disney was the week that 'Star Wars' came out.
Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.
Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.
When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period.
What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.
Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.
While Slovakia did not make the first round of NATO membership, as various requirements and reforms are instituted, these actions will enhance the opportunities to join NATO.
Al Davis was the first to know about my decision to retire, and Mom was second.
The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.
These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter.
I was the first guest star asked to appear on 'Glee,' which we all know became huge.
I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.
When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big.
I grew up abroad, and when I first passed through London in the 1970s, it seemed a drab and provincial place.
Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.
First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget.
When I was a kid, I built miniatures, and that was actually the first thing I did professionally in the film industry. It was a demonstrable skill that I had, so I worked as a model maker.
ILM was the first company that I had worked at that had a computer-graphics division.
The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper.
In any match, making a lot of first serves is very important, especially for me.
When there's work to be done in Colorado, for Colorado, we should look to skilled Coloradans first.
When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.
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