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I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking about what's really important to them.
The first album, I'd had some input, but I was 14 years old then, and I really didn't know what I was talking about.
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
I wanted to be a physical therapist because I had torn up my knee and thought it was interesting with the rehab and whatever. I did kinesiology, and after the first four days of class, I dropped out because I was like, 'This ain't the class for me!'
When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what was going on back in London or Paris, it was just in a different league. It's like a 16th-century court.
We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet.
When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.
When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.
When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
As with many teens, my first jobs included babysitting and mopping floors at McDonald's. Since then, I've held jobs a diverse as selling used cars, selling apparel, cosmetics, and real-estate, substitute-teaching six graders, teaching undergraduate creative writing, and working as an editorial assistant for a literary magazine.
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.
I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
The second album is the hardest to write. It's nothing like the first album.
The first time I really listened to an album and thought, 'This album is mine,' was Kanye's 'Late Registration.'
Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.
I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed.
If I was young again and wanted to be a professional wrestler, first thing I'd do is get jacked all to hell is what I'd do.
I feel like I'm the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.
I was absolutely blown away when I first talked to Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan at how ambitious they wanted 'Westworld' to be in looking at the drives that are leading human beings over the cliff of existence.
Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed.
Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays.
At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now!
Chinese President Xi Jinping says that if Canada wants free access to Chinese markets, Trudeau should first ram a pipeline to the B.C. coast on China's behalf.
When I first met Steve, as an American tourist coming into the zoo, I fell desperately in love with him and married him immediately.
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.
This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign.
My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called 'Love for Sale,' and that was my first role in any film.
I think 'Slumdog' was probably the first big film that happened in India, but even that seemed like a one-off thing.
When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series.
In the first week of release, 'Beasts Of No Nation' was the most watched movie on Netflix, in every country we operate in.
Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.
When we made the first album, it was meant to be a snapshot of Mumford & Sons in 2009.
We were proud of our first two records, but the parameters were pretty narrow. We didn't have full drums, for example. There were just so many limitations to that setup, and we really fully explored them.
The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.
When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.
I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.
The Lumiere brothers first exhibited moving pictures in Paris in 1896. A year later, there was a private showing at the Yildiz palace in Istanbul.
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
It's human when you get the sense that somebody likes you or is attracted to you - unless you're just completely repulsed by the person - I find that my first reaction is to entertain the idea.
During my first semester of college, I raised my hand in a class and asked the professor to define a word I didn't know. The word was holocaust, and I had to ask because, until that moment, I had never heard of it.
When I was 17, I went to Brigham Young University. That was the first time I had set foot in a classroom.
I was waiting for all other actresses to wear a bikini first so I can just follow the bandwagon.
To what extent a film works is beyond me. My first film 'Aashiq Banaya Aapne' did wonders at the box office. Then 'Chocolate' was also quite popular, but it didn't have the same effect as the first one.
I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.
When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.
ReadyMade's first three issues dished out instructions for all sorts of kitschy crafts and odd projects: homemade wallets, Adirondack chairs, even taxidermy.
The first film I worked in was Dev Anand's 'Hum Naujawan.'Then I went back to school and college.
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.
We built TransferWise focused on customer innovation. That means we build our product based first and foremost on our customers.
My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.
To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers' needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.
I'm trained in mixed martial arts. I started when I was 14 and did my first competition at 18. It was a grappling competition against all guys a weight category above me, and I got first place.
I build my characters from the day they're born to the first page of the script.
I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.
I've been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction.
I think I see a lot of artists struggling to make their first album perfect, and I've been there.
The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.
I remain convinced that the most valuable use of time for a newly published author is to write a second book that's even better than the first, and a third that's better than the second, and on and on.
It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.
The first neurologist I saw just thought I was partying too much, and he stuck by that claim even after my family insisted that he was wrong.
I was the first person in NYU Medical Center's history to be diagnosed with NMDAR encephalitis.
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