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When I first started, all the reviews of Cold Chisel would say, 'This singer won't have a voice in six months.'
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.
In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President.
Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.
CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.
I was counsel on the full veterans committee, the first Vietnam veteran to serve as a full-committee counsel in Congress. It stunned me that there was a 600,000-case backlog of claims. During my time in the Senate, it became 900,000.
First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.
The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.
'West To A Land Of Plenty' shows a family heading west, first on board a train, and then going into areas as yet untamed by rail by way of an ox-drawn wagon.
As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.
When I launched my first campaign in 1999, I knew that the arc of my public service would have many chapters.
In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq.
I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
My philosophy on quarterbacks is, first and foremost, you've got to keep them healthy and on the field.
I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
By the time 'Dumbo's Circus' wrapped production of its 120 episodes, I had an agent, and I had scored my first feature film gig.
First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.
Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.
My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.
Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.
It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.
I first came to the Garden when I was a sophomore in college. The old, old Garden.
I've been a fan of Bunji's freestyling since the first time I saw him perform, back in the early 2000s.
The president is supposed to stand up for the First Amendment and stand up for the free press - not put us through the meat grinder.
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Amy Winehouse affected my life tremendously. I think maybe she was the first sense of intimacy that I had with a complete stranger, musically speaking.
In my first year, I won the Premier League, and two cups after that, so I learned a lot from my experience in England, and I think it was all positive.
I'm just a huge fan of smells, first of all. I have a bit of an obsession with smells.
My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook... I was in the ensemble. I was one of the ladies in waiting, and I covered Winnifred.
Our first record as the Veronicas was a big mainstream success. Maybe if we'd had the indie record first, then the breakout record, it would have been supported by Triple J.
In Australia, our first album went four-times platinum. It was massive.
I remember the first scary movie I ever watched was 'Scream,' and I watched it at a sleepover.
When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.
I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.
When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.
'Sara' was the first film project I worked on as an actress; it's a short film.
I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now.
At my first Golden Globes, I met people I was very much enamored by: Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. It was surreal to see them in person.
Playing a cop on TV and working closely with actual cops on set, I do think the media does a disservice to our first responders.
I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty.
I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.
My skin was really bad. Roxanne Rizzo's products were the first things that really cleared it up.
My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood, pitched a few things, sold a couple of screenplays and a pilot that I wrote with a buddy from Spokane, flirted with seeing 'Citizen Vince' as a film, and most recently, adapted 'The Financial Lives of the Poets' as a script.
My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.
When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.
My first airplane trip was to Paris. I had this fantasy that I would become a model, and I did!
I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.
SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.
When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly.
I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers.
I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.
Back in the mid-1980s, congressional hearings were held after we brought this litigation, and held up the first experiment. At that time, I went in front of Congress, along with the major agencies involved with this.
Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.
I was Hillary in '08. I love Obama, but I was Hillary first, so I was happy to be back there with her again.
Chris Boardman was my first teammate and my first roommate. I saw him finish his career with an hour record and thought, 'Yeh, what a way to go out!'
When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.
If you were to make a quick judgment call on my intelligence and articulation when I first moved to the U.S. based on my speaking skills, it would be very low.
We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.
I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.
When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.
I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book led to another as I discovered other facets to my characters I wanted to investigate further.
'Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'.
The code core of the 2001 browser upgrade campaign was the first instance of capability detection in place of browser detection.
The web's strength lies precisely in its unique position as the world's first universal platform.
I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk.
When I was a young guy, when I first started with G.E., Jack Welch sent us all to Japan because in those days Japan was gonna crush us. And we learned a lot about Japan when we were there. But over the subsequent 30 years, the Japanese companies all fell behind. And the reason why they fell behind is because they didn't globalize.
I first conceived of my far-future setting 'Punktown' in 1980, and though it contains 'punk' in its name, the term 'cyberpunk' hadn't been coined yet. I took my inspiration strictly from punk music.
Alan Moore's first choice to be the Comedian... was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Burt Reynolds; I saw myself as Edward Blake.
It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants.
The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966.
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