Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.
The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.
When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.
My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.
I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.
When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.
I was 11 when I first said I wanted to become an actress, and everyone looked at me as if I had said I wanted to go to the moon.
It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.
In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.
The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.
When you're younger, and you do your first or second film, you want to show everyone what you can do.
Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.
'Moxie' is a name that was created by an American for the first national soft drink and then went on to mean chutzpah, and that's nice.
I like the big smoky eyes look, and I always do my eyes first when I'm putting on my make-up.
