My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.
The first songs I made brought me to the Grammys. I was a five-times nominated teenager off voice memos and songs that were clearly recorded off different mics.
Reaching my first grand slam final was amazing, and I didn't expect it at just 19 years old.
I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying.
I can't really cook, but the first dish I ever made was for my girlfriend, Eleanor. I made chicken breast wrapped in ham, homemade mashed potatoes, and gravy.
The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.
Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.
I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power. And I thought that was great stuff. Of course, in those days, Technicolor was really Technicolor; there was no such thing as desaturation. Everybody looked super suntanned.
I was a tomboy. And one of my first recollections of great success was playing baseball with the boys.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns.
The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.
The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march.
According to Ted Watt's 'The First Labor Day Parade,' the September date was chosen because it coincided with a Knights of Labor conference in New York, thus guaranteeing a sizable turnout for the festivities.
I couldn't have cared less about Gucci when I first went there - but soon after I arrived, I cared a lot.
The first dress that I wore in the Spice Girls, which everybody thought was a little black Gucci dress, was actually from Miss Selfridge - it wasn't a little black Gucci dress.
