I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.
My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.
Nobody can make me cry in public. I'll punch them first before they make my mascara smear.
In 1996, when my first novel, 'Masquerade,' was published, I knew international thrillers - or spy novels, if you prefer - had been the domain of male authors for decades.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
When I can control the ball off the first shot after serve and return, especially with my forehand, that's when I'm in control most matches.
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook... I was in the ensemble. I was one of the ladies in waiting, and I covered Winnifred.
My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.
Players like Ravindra Jadeja, Yusuf Pathan, Warner, Glenn Maxwell were noticed at IPL first. It is a platform for players all over the world.
My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.'
If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.
When I was 13, I auditioned for the theater school, and I was there for four years. In the meantime, I did my first three movies, all in Cuba.
I got colored mechanics in the United States Navy Yard for the first time.
I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.
The first thing I thought when I finished Ernest Cline's 'Ready Player One' was, 'My God, it's the grown-up's 'Harry Potter.'' Now this is from a mega 'HP' fan, so I mean business, here.
At first I moved from Sydney to Melbourne, because most of the comedy was shot in Melbourne, and then from Melbourne to Los Angeles - and you have to sacrifice stuff.
I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.
The first rule of the C.E.O. psychological meltdown is 'Don't talk about the psychological meltdown.'
I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.
