I truly thought I was going to be in pop music. And then I joined a choir to meet girls, and everything changed in the first rehearsal.
A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established.
My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.
I like to hit the gym early in the morning. I feel better throughout the day when I get in a workout first thing in the morning.
When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.
We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.
The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.
Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
The first few weeks of being a mom were profound, not just emotionally but also, physically. All the changes you instinctually go through are miraculous.
My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.
I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.
I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.
The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.
[first lines] Dilios: When the boy was born, like all Spartans, he was inspected.
Charlie Kaufman: Today is the first day of the rest of my life
[first lines] Woman: The puffballs. Husband: When the puffballs come, cold winter's almost gone.
[first lines] Mime: Give me your money. Do it.
[first lines] George: That's a nice boy. Go get 'em, Dulli.
