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When I first started campaigning to become an MP in 2004, we were suffering as a party because our hierarchy and leadership were totally detached from the party's membership.
My first role was an angel in the nursery nativity. I spotted my mum halfway through and shouted over someone else's lines to ask if she liked my costume. I've learnt not to do that now.
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.
I was in one of the first sitcoms that had a lot of Asians in it. It was called 'Gung Ho' on ABC.
Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action.
We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.
It would be hard to make a movie worse than the first 'Ocean's Eleven,' the 1960 Lewis Milestone film.
In his very first film, Mr. Gonzalez Inarritu makes the kind of journey some directors don't - or can't - travel in an entire career.
Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a Mexican director.
My first paying job in Los Angeles was taking tickets at the Bing under Ron Haver.
From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.
Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.
There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after about two minutes, when the solid rocket boosters separated, the ride got a lot smoother.
I wouldn't ever have believed I would marry so young, but it was love at first sight, so there was no point in holding back for the sake of it.
My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.
Ah, the first NAFTA was really, had a lot of disastrous elements for Canada's environment.
If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.
What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible.
In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA.
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
Professionally, I made my first film at 20 in a war zone in Kosovo.
I first decided to run for Congress when I was 29 - and became a Representative at the age of 30.
In my first movie, That Night, with Juliette Lewis, I had a scene with two other girls where we applied a cream to our chests to make our breasts grow. I was 10.
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
I write my novels in English first; then they are translated into Turkish by professional translators. Then I take their translation and rewrite. So basically, I write the same novel twice.
It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.
Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.
And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable.
The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
After filming the first season of 'Poldark,' I went with the cast on a trip to Iceland. We started off in Reykjavik and then went into the mountains and swam in naturally heated pools.
The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.
The position of vice president does not exist in France; neither does a role comparable that of the first lady of the United States.
I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language.
I'm the first secretary of labor in the 21st century, and the competitiveness of the American work force and the modernization of decades-old regulations have been among our top priorities.
My first port of call was Los Angeles. That's where I laid my first foot on America.
Americans did not suffer alone. World trade overall fell two-thirds in the first few years of the Depression.
The first intifada, I was then commander of Central Command, commanding the West Bank, basically. And I know to what extent the first intifada was a popular uprising.
Saddam Hussein has set an example of defiance, especially against the first President Bush, that other Arab leaders cannot and should not emulate; the example leads only to empty gestures and developmental stagnation, both of which the Arab nations have had enough of already.
You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.
I'm an engineer. I studied physics and engineering. In fact, in 1978 I started working as an aerospace engineer with General Dynamics. I used to test cruise missiles, space systems, I worked on the first generation of cruise missile.
When I first started running there were no computers. There was no such thing as a laptop.
I've been involved in and out of the U.N. for many years - in fact my first internship was in 1971, so it goes back a couple of years!
It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.
Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl.
Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.
Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.
We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.
I'm a novelist from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations of British Columbia, both small coastal reserves hugging the rugged shores of the west coast.
The First Nations Financial Transparency Act insulted the integrity of the very people in our communities who guide our economic policy and act as our mediators with provincial and federal governments.
There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
When I started competing, I was so broke that I had to tie my helmet with a piece of string. On one jump, the string snapped, and my helmet carried on farther than I did. I may have been the first ski jumper ever beaten by his gear.
I won my first 10 fights by knockout. The money was getting larger at the same time.
I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.
I was the first reporter in the country to get a U.S. Senator on the air during the 9/11 attacks - I was broadcasting from the Hart Building.
I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.
One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
I first started rapping when I heard the Sugarhill Gang in 1979, when I was 11 years old in seventh grade.
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
As an actor, your first priority is the work - immersing yourself in the role, backstory, and bringing that to screen.
I was told 'no' a lot when I first got to Nashville, but I'm pretty stubborn! That's one of my faults and qualities.
I guess at the age of 15 was the first time I made a goal of wanting to be on television, and I didn't get a series until I was 23, which was 'The West Wing.'
I'm a bit of a geek, actually. So I always wanted my first film to be science fiction.
My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected.
The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.
I played for a lot of teams in my career, and I check all their results every Saturday, or at least the ones who haven't gone bust. But it's always Hearts first. They're the club who've really seeped into me.
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