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My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt.
When I get to Washington, the people of Florida are going to know I'm not going to spend my first year having fundraisers to pay off a campaign debt.
Remember, the first presidential candidate to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was... Barack Obama, in 2008. He did it, in spite of a flat pledge to the contrary, because his campaign saw that it could vastly outspend John McCain.
My first match was against Razor Ramon. I lost. Come to think about it, I lost a lot back in those days.
I started wrestling professionally, I did my first television match at 16, but I was wrestling at country fairs and national armories when I was 14.
I was a fan first; then I became a wrestler, then a promoter, then a businessman and everything that goes with it - marketing, merchandise, licensing, legal, everything. But I've always enjoyed it.
I've seen promotions rush things to market and not be strategic about it. The first impression is the lasting impression.
The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I remember Steve Martin wanted one, and I wanted one. I got the 'Surrealist Head', and I was thrilled.
Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick.
We have the First Amendment to rely on whenever an elected official tries to impinge on our rights to speak.
Farz' proved to be a flop for the first 10 weeks. I remember buying tickets worth Rs 5000 myself, just so the film would run in theatres longer. And in the 11th week the film miraculously picked up and ran for 50 weeks!
I was glad to know that 'Caravan' was one of the first movies from Bollywood that was loved by the Chinese audience.
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
'Affable' is the word that often comes up from reporters, even staunch critics, who meet Lou Dobbs for the first time.
In the summer of 2007, Roger Goodell, the new NFL commissioner, convened a meeting in Chicago for the first league-wide concussion summit. All thirty-two teams were ordered to send doctors and trainers to the meeting.
By 2012, Dan Gilbert was well over his LeBron James-abandonment hissy fit. He opened Cleveland's first casino, with 1,900 slot machines and eighty-nine table games.
Omalu first found the tau 'threads' in the brain of former Steeler Mike Webster in 2002 and published his findings in 2005, in the journal 'Neurosurgery.'
When I did the first 'Oxygene' in the vinyl days, I had a structure in mind divided in 2 parts fitting the A&B sides of an album.
I did the first 'Oxygene' on an 8 tracks tape recorder with very few instruments, with no other choice than being minimalist.
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.
The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.
Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.
The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.
I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.
Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.
You'll get the biggest bang for each buck by paying off the highest interest rate debt in your portfolio first, while making minimum payments on the remainder. It's called the avalanche method, and it gets you out of debt cheapest and fastest.
Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I'm remorseful.
My first gig was 'The Outsiders.' I was 14 there. And probably one of the more jading experiences in my whole life.
I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.
I had to live on $17,000 a year until I was 33, because I was a failed artist until I was 29, when I made my first short film that went to Sundance.
I remember my first Champions League final in 1996: Juventus-Ajax. That's the clearest memory from my childhood.
We cut songs that touch us because if they don't touch us first, there's no way in the world we're going to be able to sell those songs to somebody else.
We were kind of young and a little naive when we first started out in the business.
When I made my First-Class debut, my first spell was of 10 overs. So I was always used to bowling lot of overs in Ranji Trophy, which always helps.
I sold my first script when I was 21 - this kids' adventure movie that never got made. I just bought that one back, actually. I'm pretty psyched about it.
My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.
The first big long-form work I did in comics was 'Scalped' for Vertigo, which ran for 60 issues.
Especially those first few years of my comic book career, I had no idea what was going to happen the next day.
I went back and started reading with Thor's first appearance, and my goal is to read all 600-plus issues in a row.
We had that first Marvel NOW! retreat where everybody came in and pitched their new books, which was probably the most exciting retreat I've ever been to because it was all brand new.
When I look back at my career as an author, I don't look at the first book that was ever published as to where my career began - I look to the first book that I ever wrote.
The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June.
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
I would love to speak with First Lady Michelle Obama about the addictive component of obesity.
My first five novels were written longhand. So were hosts of short stories.
I've had over a dozen and a half novels published since late 1994 when my first novel, 'Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls' came out.
I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official 'Wreck-It Ralph' recording session.
'Your Life Calling' is the first thing in my long career I've ever actually invented. It is my entrepreneurial debut.
In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms.
By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the first Cape Cod League in 1923 - Orleans joined the four original teams five years later. By 1940, the league had foundered on financial shoals and disbanded.
One reviewer dubbed my first book, 'Getting Rid of Matthew,' 'chick noir,' and another called it 'anti chick lit,' both of which I loved.
I was into Alan Moore and Frank Miller. I was a teenager when all those books where coming out for the first time - 'Watchmen,' 'V for Vendetta.' It was a great time to get into comics.
I treated the first few books as a very long journalistic exercise. I thought of every chapter as an article that needed to be finished.
Howard Hughes was obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career opportunity.
We should put hardworking families first by voting on legislation to create jobs, raise wages, provide equal pay for women, invest in education, protect voting rights, and pass comprehensive immigration reform.
No military contractors should have a 'shoot first' culture that puts civilians or our brave military service members in danger.
The government shouldn't step in at the first stage and create land banks. Industry should buy the land as much as they can, and if they get stuck, then the government should step in.
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
First of all, I yell very little, just so you know. Maybe years ago I did more, but I yell very little.
When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999.
I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.
The very first movie that I ever saw in a theater was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'
It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene.
All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.
In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
If a person is insane or troubled, you first have to get the person to admit that they have a problem before you can solve anything.
When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.
I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.
In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some are almost done. Some I'm rewriting. If I'm working with a co-writer, they'll usually write the first draft. And then I write subsequent drafts.
With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's like 5 percent. Which means that the parents, the ones that aren't going into stores now, they're no longer buying books for their kids, which is not great.
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.
For my first album I wanted to make a record that would be intimate, deeply personal, and honest.
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