It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants.
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.
Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.
I tried the second season of 'American Horror Story,' and it scared me horribly. I guess I prefer my own imagination to a realized visual.
Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.
In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find in other sports is that it's so final; there's no second chance if you make a mistake.
I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.
Every weekday morning, I picture my first paragraph while I hike with my dog Milo near Mulholland Drive, looking out over the San Fernando Valley. I edit the paragraph, then memorize it, so that when I get back home and sit down at my computer, the blank screen's tyranny lasts only a second or two. A brief reign!
As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.
The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.
I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.
They gave me a second opportunity and 45 years later I'm still here.
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial.
I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.
When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.
I always say what's on my mind. No need to second guess with me.
Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.
Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn't have been made at all.
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
No one remembers who came in second.
I always wanted children late; I had my first daughter at 39 and the second at 45.
It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Growing up, as much as country was a big influence in my life, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and Led Zeppelin were such a close second. My first concert ever was the Rolling Stones in Denver. I snuck a camera backstage and filmed Mick Jagger during sound-check.
I want to be the first. If they'd let me go to the moon, I'd crawl all the way to Cape Kennedy just to do it. I'd like to go to the moon, but I don't want to be the second man to go there.
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.
After those first two BAFTAs, I didn't really get offered anything, which makes you think, 'Oh, no!' And, after I finished the second series of 'Broadchurch,' nothing came up for six months, which really is a long time, and I got a bit panicky.
Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.
