In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.
I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.
First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.
My first film was a comedy, but after that I went always into more heavier stuff.
My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.
I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
I learned the first rule of repentance: that repentance requires greater intimacy with God than with our sin.
Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance.
I think the first movie I ever saw was a 'Star Wars' triple bill, when 'Return of the Jedi' was released.
Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.
The first breath of air of Africa - it felt like you were in another continent - you were, you were - and it was different.
I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.
In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me.
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious.
Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.
What a grim feeling it is to come across a written line so exceptionally inspiring that your first reaction is,
Actually, it was first a movie called Gale Force, which was a hurricane movie. That script never came together, and then the same deal was replaced with Cliffhanger.
There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.
