First Quotes
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I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the negotiations between the government and the Sudanese rebels in the south. And then, slowly, I was speaking about Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and a few other places.
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I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.
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The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one, we appealed to the sentiments and interests of the different groupings in the region and had them with us. In the second one, we did it on our own, on the basis of false premises, with extremely brutality and lack of political skill.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
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I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
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My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.
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The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.
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I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.
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We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
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I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.'
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At first all we wanted to do was be successful in our home town.
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My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.
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At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.
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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
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I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.
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I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.
