At the risk of saying you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie: you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie.
When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.
In late May 1993, I gave my first QLA Seminar at the Sheraton Hotel in Los Angeles.
Many Catholic parishes were segregated prior to the Civil Rights movement, and the first large contingent of African-American Catholic priests would enter into the seminary in the 1920s.
I first came to Jewish-Catholic relations in 1963, while studying for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
I didn't have my first car until after the end of my senior year. I got a Yukon Sport.
Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.
The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.
We developed already, before the first servicing mission, this has been further developed on the second servicing mission and we refined it this time, all the terminology.
Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
I remember when 'Nostalgic 64' first dropped, and it became popular, Shady wanted to sign me at one point.
I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.
By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from.
I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
I really got my money's worth from colleges in Sheffield and Rotherham because I kept dropping out, and I wasn't sure what I wanted to do at first, like a lot of teenagers.
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.
The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.