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My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.
The fact is, for the first 10 years I toured as a solo artist, I wasn't playing any of the songs I didn't write or sing.
When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.
When I first got to Motown, Smokey was already a fixture there. To me, he is one of the greatest songwriters and poets, so anything they ask me to do for Smokey is going to get a yes.
I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.
First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.
What was cool about my career, Jack LaLanne gave me my first break on TV. I was his co-host.
In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.
The United States is proud to be the first country to recognize the existence of a Jewish State - just 11 minutes after Israel's independence was declared.
I don't get nervous anymore. The first couple times I met Roger Federer, or Grigor Dimitrov, I was a little nervous. But now, it's more natural.
That's one of the things I loved about Pride: the first round was ten minutes.
I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.
I liked Westerns for two reasons: First, it took the actor outside. They were all very physical at that time and not limited to a stage. Second, they paid my rent an awful lot.
No one else has performed in a play after they've died, and I want to be the first person to do it.
Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.
I had originally written 'Pariah' as a feature, and we shot the first act as a short film, and then we used the short as a marketing tool to fundraise for the feature.
When I first started on 'Dragons' Den,' I was under pressure to buy flashy cars and boats but I resisted.
My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.
There is more excitement, more amazement when a first is born. No subsequent babies can have that impact.
The study of gender and language might seem at first to be a narrowly focused field, but it is actually as interdisciplinary as they come.
In 1999, my team discovered that the star Upsilon Andromedae was circled by three gas-giant planets - the first distant multiplanet system ever found. That same year, other researchers observed the first 'transit' of an exoplanet - a planet blocking out a small fraction of the starlight as it passes in front of the star.
The first exoplanet to be found around a sun-like star was discovered in 1995, just two years before I began studying exoplanet detection.
Because Alpha Centauri is so close, it is our first stop outside our solar system. There's almost certain to be small, rocky planets around Alpha Centauri A and B.
Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.
The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it.
It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it.
My first, second, third, fourth and fifth priority is definitely defense. I want to be everywhere and help everybody.
I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.
I've always been drawn to stories involving brothers, which started with my first viewing of Sean Penn's, 'The Indian Runner.' This subsequently lead to my working with my two brothers, Scott & Brad. I couldn't imagine a greater gift in the business.
I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.
If anybody should be a judge of quarterbacks, I've played with the most quarterbacks in NFL history throughout my first four years.
I think the first concert I attended was Coldplay with my dad when I was around eight years old.
When I first came into money, I bought six or seven homes. One weekend I went to Miami and bought an apartment and a mansion several blocks from each other, which was not that bright!
The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.
Real heroes don't wear capes. Real superheroes wear uniforms and badges and stethoscopes! Real superheroes are members of our military, law enforcement, and first responders. Pretend superheroes wear capes!
When I first came to Oregon, the annual amount spent on production was $1 million to $1.5 million. By the time 'Leverage' was done, there had been over $100 million in production that year.
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions.
I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.
The idea of doing a tennis movie is truly unbelievable to me. Well, first of all, they don't really exist.
My first series, I wouldn't even know where to get a clip of it. It was called 'Cracking Up.' It was on 'FOX' in 2004.
Paula Milne was really the first thing that drew me to 'The Politician's Husband.'
I'd only read a bit of the first book. And I just knew about all the media furor over it. But I'd not read books 2 or 3. I'd just read a bit of it. And I'd seen the films.
It took a while for the first 'Blade' to get made, and Marvel decided they liked the Whistler character so much, when Blade guest starred on the 'Spider-Man' cartoon, they put Whistler on the cartoon, and the movie hadn't come out yet.
And, again, I'm the first one to say that I'm not going be successful at everything.
America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States.
But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications, targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets.
When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and when Ted Hughes read my first anthology he would invite me to Yorkshire for meat pies and mentorship.
When I started 'First Blood,' back in 1968, I was deeply influenced by Geoffrey Household's 'Rogue Male.'
I first came to Jewish-Catholic relations in 1963, while studying for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
I loved 'Nothing Was the Same' so much. For me, that was the first Drake record that I got into.
The strikers are the first defenders. And the first defender is the first striker to build from the back.
Every movie you attack has its challenges, and I was excited about the challenges presented by 'Deadpool.' I was a huge fan of the original, and I think, as a director, you have to put the script first.
The completely irreverent tone was the thing that won me over about the first 'Deadpool' movie.
Here's a little known fact - Arnold is the first body builder to run for governor since Janet Reno.
The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.
I believe a mini-series has two audiences. The first is the media. Then I go for the television audience.
My father, Arthur, was a fishmonger, first at Billingsgate market and later in Camden Town and Golders Green.
The first series of 'Open All Hours' came and went without much fanfare because the BBC, in its almighty wisdom, put it out on BBC2, reasoning that it was 'a gentle comedy', better suited to the calms of the second channel than to the noisier, choppier waters of the first.
The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.
When I first went to Fitzroy Lodge, I said I was going to be heavyweight champion of the world and retire when I was 30. This is when I was 10.
Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.
A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?
Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.
Because of the way I'm built, I constantly have to strengthen. This is sort of a ritual: I put on my tights first, and right when I'm about to put on my costume, I get down on the floor, and I plank.
I first started reading about Barack and taking notes when he won the Iowa caucuses in January 2008 because I was embarrassed that, at that point, I knew virtually nothing about him.
When television began, it modeled itself after radio. Many early television programs were radio programs first. 'My Favorite Wife,' 'The Jack Benny Show,' 'Burns and Allen,' 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.'
The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which belied images of Native Americans that could be traced back to the first brutal contact with whites.
My first job in advertising was actually in the mailroom of Grey Advertising in Sydney.
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