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You throw 40 times a game when you're first starting out, it's a crash course.
My first car was a Toyota 4Runner when I was 17. I paid for it myself. I was very happy.
First and foremost, my involvement within the Olympic pursuit and Games were obviously surrounded by only putting the absolute best nutrients into my body.
'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.
When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.
Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.
The very first lead work that I made is called 'Land Sea and Air,' and is the enclosure of primal elements within that kind of carapace of lead.
I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.
First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.
I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!
First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I mean, that's normal. I understand that. I don't quarrel with that.
Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
When I visited Chechnya, I was taken aback at first because people would regularly make jokes about kidnapping me.
Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.
When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was surprised when the first novel I wrote was regarded as a funny novel.
So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook.
The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major scientific breakthroughs that provided a specific target for blood-screening tests and opened the doorway to the development of antiretroviral medications.
If Hillary's the first woman president, well, in England we already know what a Margaret Thatcher is. It's not an end unto itself to be the first woman president.
The first show I did was 'The Nutcracker' ballet. I was one of the kids who comes out in the beginning.
When I first joined the army, I felt I had to be part of the alpha male culture. But I didn't.
Many Catholic parishes were segregated prior to the Civil Rights movement, and the first large contingent of African-American Catholic priests would enter into the seminary in the 1920s.
If you can open people's hearts first, then maybe people's minds get opened after that.
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
I believe it is called 'Area 51' because of a project, the very first project that went on out there, in 1951.
When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.
We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.
I hope that Los Altos is one of the first cities to have self-driving cars, and if that's true, well, awesome, because there's a lot of parking lots that we could get rid of and use for parks. That would be amazing!
Being the first FDA-authorized direct-to-consumer genetic test out there is revolutionary.
I first told my parents that I wanted to be an astronaut when I was 3 years old.
The contention is if you don't do it in the first quarter, if you don't box out and control the glass in the first quarter, you are not going to do it in the fourth quarter and overtime.
When I was coming up through the programs with the Amateur Basketball Association, it was height: they looked for the tall players, and they looked to develop us. I was 15 when they first got me.
At last we've seen the first installment of Joss Whedon's new web series, 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog,' and it's sweeter than we'd ever imagined.
My first big show in Denver was 'Ruthless! The Musical.' I played Tina Denmark at the Theatre on Broadway. It was my big break!
I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.
There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.
I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.
First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.
When I got my role on 'Seinfeld,' the show was already huge. I was so nervous on my first day. I remember meeting everyone and holding my script and just shaking.
When I first began to have the initial idea for 'Heartsease,' I just wrote a skeleton story; that is, I started her off as this young, bright 16-year-old and then added the events that occurred and where she and other characters fitted in, even writing 3 different endings, as I was not sure where Mary's story would lead to.
We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.
On my first movie, there were three women: the body-makeup girl, the hairdresser, and the secretary of the producer.
When you've got that performing bug, there's no way that you can tear it out. It's there. When you go out on stage, and that first wave of applause comes, you just go, 'Wow.'
When I first started out, I was really, really scared when I performed before an audience. I'd look over their heads.
Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the oval office. I can't remember was the first thing was.
I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.
The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass.
I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.
One of the first jokes I wrote was this nail salon bit that ended up blowing up on YouTube. That's kind of what propelled me into standup.
Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.
If I heard a noise at night, I'd think there was a burglar sneaking around; the first thing I'd do was check on my guitar.
From the first album, we've had songs like 'The Jack' that are blues based. We also did it in 'Ride On,' where we went into the blues.
I have the Internet, but the first that happens with it is my machine will crash. I get by when it's operating. What would I know about updating?
My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.
I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.
I love to chit-chat and used to be the first to arrive at a party and the last to leave.
People I get the most star-struck by are people I've sort of grown up with watching. So, for example, working with Debby Ryan, when I first met her, I was a bit nervous and a bit star-struck because I had grown up watching her TV shows on the Disney Channel.
The European Army is our long-term goal. But first we have to strengthen the European Defence Union.
Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular.
My very first job was selling pop off the back of a wagon. Then I went to work in a timber yard to save up for my bass amp and joined The Smiths.
In China, they treated me really well, they like me a lot. The first few times they laughed when I took my shirt off, but when they saw me throw my punches and saw my opponent on the floor, they came over to my side and clapped.
My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Internet, so there are no lurking caches of it anywhere.
In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before.
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