When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.
I’m a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.
The central activity of leadership is teaching – first by example, second by precept.
Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.
For the first time I’m free to be myself.
The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.
The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.
To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.
Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.
The first pale blossom of the unripened year.
The first time that I came to Cannes, I think it was in 1953, I was 18 and unknown.
My first movie was ‘Diner.’ My second movie was ‘Tender Mercies.’ I did really good work.
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.
Maybe Oliver Stone doesn’t lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.
Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.
Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.
A couple’s first task, it has always seemed to me, is to solve the problem of breakfast; if this can be worked out amicably, most other difficulties can too.
In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.