The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.
When I first became recognizable from appearing on television, I abused my notoriety as much as I possibly could, at the expense of both my health and personal relationships.
My first walk illegally at 20 years old was between the towers of Notre Dame.
The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from. I was in a band called the October Game, and we opened up for a Vancouver band.
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.
When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
I have a nutritionist and a doctor. Everything is checked. Thoroughly. Everything I take is checked out first.
My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.
The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.
It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.
When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.
I think if you went to a studio and pitched the first 'Insidious,' it never would have gotten made because it was so offbeat.
God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.
When I was three years old, one of the first albums I ever heard was Michael Jackson's 'Off the Wall.'
That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.
I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles.
