Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue.
Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
One of my first jobs was as a recipe tester for a PR agency. One week, the editor of 'Housewife' magazine called my boss and asked me to write a column - the cookery editor had gone away on a press trip. I was terrified.
Acadia was founded in 1916 by Woodrow Wilson as the first Eastern national park, aided by rich men, often with middle initials, the 'rusticators,' as they were known then, the first of our wealthy out-of-state visitors.
When World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988, there was no truly effective treatment for what was almost always a deadly disease.
I'm interested in a lot of different things, but first and foremost I'm into the idea of human consciousness, and Angels & Airwaves is a byproduct of that.
Al Gore has been one of my closest friends since the day we met, on the first day of college, 35 years ago.
The First Battle of Fallujah was called off in part because of the intensity of non-U.S. media coverage of civilian casualties from outlets like Al Jazeera.
I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the negotiations between the government and the Sudanese rebels in the south. And then, slowly, I was speaking about Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and a few other places.
I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.
We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.
The first album I bought, I didn't even buy it. My grandma got Mike Jones and Bow Wow's 'Wanted' a little later. Matter of fact Ying Yang Twins' 'U.S.A. Still United' was the first album, but Mike Jones was the first album I really love.
The bloody nose was the album cover for my first album, but it's since become my logo.
I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal.
Businesses that have gone through an episode of hyperinflation become understandably alert to the threat of it: at the first hint of inflation, they're likely to increase prices, since they've learned that if they don't, and inflation hits, their businesses will be wrecked.
With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.
Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
When television began, it modeled itself after radio. Many early television programs were radio programs first. 'My Favorite Wife,' 'The Jack Benny Show,' 'Burns and Allen,' 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.'
My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock.