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.
Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.
I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
Put your hand on your heart and ask yourself, what do I want? The first thing that comes to mind is always the right one.
Sometimes things seem good at first . . . but we learn the hard way that they weren't as good as we thought.
I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers. It makes me wonder why I brought up the recovery story in the first place.
My first campaign was pretty ugly: the incumbent came after me hard with a lot of things that weren't true.
I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.
I think there's a lot of things that need fixing at Manchester United apart from David Moyes, but in this business, you also realize the head coach is always going to be the first to go, unfortunately.
I was living in Florida working as a model and got my first acting job there in the movie 'Wild Things.' I thought it was sort of cool and decided to do some training.
When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'
Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not. But, I have to read the entire thing 'cause anything can change in a script.
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works.
Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.
So the first thing that I thought about was, 'How is this car going to handle?' But then after I'd been driving with it and practicing with it and I accomplished that, then I just kind of sat back.
