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For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.
I ran for my first office at 25 against an incumbent city councilman. I took 55% of the vote and became the youngest councilman in the area at the time.
The first bet I remember was on the Chargers in Super Bowl 29 with my classmates. I lost a lot of weeks' allowance.
James Miller has already been declared one of 'London's rising stars', and the central vision of his first novel, 'The Lost Boys,' is wonderfully striking.
When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.
The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.
All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team.
I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the views of the United States Government as to some of the problems confronting us.
I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementary's school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.
I'm going to say yes, I reckon we'll have the first BME (black or minority ethnicity) prime minister.
It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.
First job I went out on in new York I got, and when I came back, the first job I went out on, I got.
Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.
The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.
The thing is, I knew from the very first audition that I did not fit the classic 'X Factor' criteria.
The rationale for eliminating the alternative minimum tax is that such a backup system should not be necessary if the tax code is fundamentally fair and eliminates all the loopholes that made it possible for high-income taxpayers to escape taxation in the first place.
I first became familiar with Dave Eggers's work when I was living in San Francisco and enrolled at USF's MFA Program.
I did meet 'The Everly Brothers' once, and we talked for awhile. Then we figured out we were first cousins! My late mother was the sister of Don and Phil's father, Ike Everly.
When I first pitched my Navy tent on the island of Espiritu Santo to the north of Vila, the natives on nearby Malakula were cannibals. Today, they have representation in the United Nations.
I am the first to point out that I really am not kind to illustrators. By that, I mean I really don't give that much to work with.
I've played in Test matches before after injury without first playing a county game or warm-up of some sort.
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
My first race was '99/2000. At that time, I was at 'Salon,' and I was basically their campaign reporter, so I would just jump around from race to race, candidate to candidate.
Saudi Arabia has been successful in preventing Houthi missiles from causing substantial damage. Yet, the inability of Saudi authorities in preventing Houthi missiles from being fired in the first place serves as an embarrassing reminder that the kingdom's leadership is unable to restrain their Iranian-backed opponent.
My junior and senior year in college is when I first realized what MMA is and really started liking it. I went the other route - I went into the entertainment field and started wrestling professionally, and I did that for about 11 years.
People have to know that when momentum for a national movement has to be built, basic things have to be talked about first.
All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn't have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I'm so into the process itself, not so much the end product.
When I first took the bench, I was assigned to handle a calendar of criminal cases. It was an enormous docket. I tried in each case to make sure that the litigants not only in fact received, but also felt that they had received, a full and fair opportunity to be heard.
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.
I have a lot of traditional values I follow personally, which was hard to deal with when I first moved to L.A.
I was really into the first 'Spider-Man' films with Tobey Maguire, so it's pretty cool how it all came full circle.
My first film, 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the auditions.
I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a movie. It's an apocalyptic thriller, and it's really cool. It's the first movie I ever shot.
In the U.S., free speech and the press are protected by the First Amendment. It has a clarity unmatched by modern legislators and declares that 'Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or the press.'
Constitutionally, a revising chamber is useful and important. The first occasion I know of in history when the Lords fulfilled this role was in 1539 when Henry VIII's act of proclamations was neutered by their lordships so effectively that the Act was repealed in 1547.
It is of considerable importance that politicians stick to their commitments or do not make such commitments in the first place.
I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
The first intimation I had that the Yankees were for sale was through an item to that effect in the newspapers. The idea instantly occurred to me that here was a prospect to become interested in a major-league club at home.
Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
Electing the first Catholic president, my grandfather, in 1960, did not mean that religious intolerance disappeared from our land.
Electing the first African-American president was a tremendous accomplishment, but it hasn't erased racism.
I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
In my first season after Mancini signed me, I was injured a lot, but when I was fit, he did play me.
I played in the Under 18s when I was 14, then the reserves at 15, and then the first team.
When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year.
The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
How I did the first 'DiCaprio,' it was mine. I was pulling from everywhere. I was getting stuff from movies. I was getting stuff from interviews. Everywhere. And it was fine, because it was just put out for free on SoundCloud.
A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.
I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.
The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.
In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved flawed in its details.
Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.
When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
I remember when I made my first album, I was 32 or 33 years old and I thought I was way too old then.
I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
I was in fittings for the first costume even before I knew I was even going to be 'Deathlok.'
The first CD I had was 'Definitely Maybe' by Oasis, and I had a tape of' 'Parklife' by Blur when I was nine.
One of my first concerts ever was seeing Jethro Tull at Fiddler's Green, when I was twelve.
My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.
Sadly, Princess Diana and I were just about the first divorced women to come under the global press's microscope. But I have a feeling it's a full and active club now.
I generally wake up, exercise and read through a huge amount of newspapers. I get to the office somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 - my brothers and I are always the first ones in.
Donald Trump has proven adept at mobilizing anti-immigrant and anti-trade sentiment among a minority of Americans into a strong movement that seeks to put the United States first in global affairs. Yet, his is not the majority's view.
The more Trump emphasises America First, the more it turns into America Alone.
When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
When I first began working in Japan, I had to confront the Japanese people's excessive worship for foreign goods and the fixed idea of what clothes ought to be. I wanted to change the rigid formula of clothing that the Japanese followed.
A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.
When we first invested in Colombia, we were buying a lot of coal from Colombia. We were dealing with them daily. I knew their guys at the port, I knew their guys at the mine, I had a feel of the country.
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