You can't take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.
I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees.
You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.
The first script I got was Narc and I really responded to it; it reminded me of a '70s type movie, I really liked the characters, I didn't anticipate the ending.
That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.
The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye.
The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one.
Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a 'Gilmore Girls' episode, and I thought I was right for it.
John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio.
When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it.
When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!
I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.
The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment.
I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.
When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.
To start a happy conversation with anybody in this world Is to be happy yourself first and secondly be a humble human being. Only then can you make others Happy.
Most of the roles that I go for are Americans, so the first thing I had to do was pin down the American accent - which is obviously in 'Blue Crush 2.'
Indeed, this crisis was also spurred by the abandonment of professional ideals in the pursuit of profit that made managed care necessary in the first place.
