According to Robert, his friend Moses was a soldier in the first war, as he described it. He fought Indians and soldiers in red coats.
The way I see it, an umpire must be perfect on the first day of the season and then get better every day.
When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.
'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.
For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.
Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.
I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.
If the first words out of your mouth are to cry ‘political correctness!’, … chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.
As an actor, there are many confusing factors that can make you take or not take a decision. It becomes difficult. Your first and last checkpoint should be the story. I always read a script as an audience.
You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.
My first film was with Cuba Gooding Jr, 'The Fighting Temptations,' and I had a little part here and there on little shows as guest stars. And I've taken acting classes.
In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists.
The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
As a seven-year-old, I remember when Etan Patz disappeared and was immortalized as the first missing-child face on a milk carton.
I was pregnant with my daughter when I started writing my first thriller, so I guess you could blame hormones.
We see new male artists have their first single reach No. 1 on the charts, but it generally takes a female a lot longer to build momentum.
My first place in Nashville was like 'Animal House.' The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise.
I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
How can any company know if its processes, products, people are safe? Only if everyone is watching and telling the truth. The first part can be assumed; the second cannot.
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
