When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
Going to the seaside in winter is like seeing your partner first thing in the morning. Ugly, depressing and troubled by wind.
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.
The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
The first thing that's important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you can do anything.
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.
What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down.
The enjoyment of work - to the extent that you have any - is likely highest in the first hours of the day when you are fresh, not tired, working on the most important things.
Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
You wonder, how could socialists, true socialists work with Islamists? Because if those Islamists take over, the first thing they're going to do is kill the socialists.
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school.
I'm not for every woman, you know. Because a lot of women - I mean, obviously, your first thing is, 'What do you want your guy to look like?' And I'm not the tall, dark, handsome guy.
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.
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