What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To try and really roll your sleeves up.
The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property.
My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.
Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.
As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.
To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
When I first heard Wallace Stevens' voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice.
The very first thing on the docket is to have the opportunity to travel to look at spiders in other parts of the world. I know there are really cool silks out there.
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.
I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.
The first thing I feel like we have the potential to do is to deliver to consumers more roots to their home.
