First fight. Then fiddle.
I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.
I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk.
I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.
Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.
I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.
President Obama had two Supreme Court nominees in his first term. There was no filibuster against them.
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.
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
Though I was the last child in the family, I was the first to enter the film industry.
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
'Zubaan' is the first film I had signed as a lead. It was an opportunity I was waiting for, coming at a time when I was getting shortlisted for roles but was unable to make the final cut.
I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe.
The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.
In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.
When I first went into financial services, people told me not to be too over-optimistic about change.
Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep individuals like John Hinckley from ever buying firearms in the first place.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
