I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.
My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.
I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel a few years later, I sent him a copy!
It's been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with the first record a lot of the kids in the crowd were wearing neck ties like I was and now you'll see a lot of girls with pink hair. It's cool, it's actually really neat.
When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!
But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.
The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.
I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.
We're trying to make sure that financial advisers act like lawyers and doctors. When you go to a lawyer or doctor, they have an obligation to put your best interests first. Financial advisers don't.
My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.
The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.
In television, I was first cast as a cavalry officer because of my name.
I moved to Cardiff when I was 17 and never needed a car. When I came to L.A. for my first job there, I needed a car, so I had to pass my driving test.
When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.
My first records are integral because I made them, you know, and I'm going to learn from those mistakes.
It was no accident that just minutes after Israel became a nation, the United States... became the first nation in the world to recognize what was prophesized throughout the Old Testament about Israel returning after its absence.
But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.
If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.
When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days.
What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.
I love playing 'Madame Vastra.' Although I do suffer, spending three-and-a-half hours in make-up every morning to have her lizard skin put on. I was so excited the first day when we did the make-up test, but after six hours, I was like, 'Can we finish now?'
I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.
The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.
There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.
It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
I still remember the first acronym I learned, BLUF: Bottom Line Up Front. I still try to communicate that way. No reason to dance around getting to the point.
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.
A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.
People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
I see it as a compliment to be compared to someone like Sharapova who has won five Slams. She's a great champion. I see it in a positive light. But also I'm my own person. I don't want to be the next someone else. I want to be the first of me.
