The audience creates its own personality, I’ve noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I’m fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.
I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I’ve been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.
My first words were ‘Seconds, please.’ Most kids in kindergarten napped on a little rug. I had a braided 9 x 12.
If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you’d be the first person in the history of the world.
It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called ‘Rule Of The Bone.’ I didn’t do a very good job. I didn’t really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.
I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.
I didn’t think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he’s everything that I’m not.
I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was ’home.
I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something that I long for because I’m tainted.
I became the first ever Euro-continental champion in WWF history. Well, besides D-Lo Brown, but he doesn’t count.
I’ll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.
When I first got an agent, they gave me some advice – lose weight.
The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Everyone’s first thought is “These women are going to take advantage of you” or “Someone’s only going to date you because you’re famous.” That stuff’s not really an issue because that’s super-easy to see through.
I didn’t lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?
When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don’t make any money, then you change things.
I think in general I’ve never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.
Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
Tribulation first makes one realize what one is.