Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
The Marine Corps was the first father figure I had ever known.
Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me.
I'll be the first one to admit that if I have conclusions based on faulty premises, then let me know about that, and I'll be the first one to change it.
The first movie that I ever said was my favorite movie - and I've said for the longest - is 'The Producers,' Mel Brooks' original 'Producers.' The two lead performances from Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder are both unstoppable performances and then supported by amazing supporting characters throughout.
My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.
TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.
The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more.
Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.
The first time I heard 'Baby Federer,' I was maybe 16. After that, it sort of took off.
I don't get nervous anymore. The first couple times I met Roger Federer, or Grigor Dimitrov, I was a little nervous. But now, it's more natural.
I expect each and every USDA employee to uphold their fellow Americans' First Amendment freedoms.
To be one of the first British females to get three gold medals, to join Laura Trott in doing that, is a huge privilege.
My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.
I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.
I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from the ferry from Mumbai, when I was 18.
The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.
