I was $4,000 short on my first payroll.
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.
The first time I heard 'Georgia Peaches,' I absolutely loved it.
Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.
I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek.
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
The first perk of theater is the girls.
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.
The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru.
I originally wanted to go into sports, but my first concert was KISS at the shooting of 'KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park.' The minute I saw Gene and Paul... it was all over. I knew that's what I wanted to do.
You can't be no philanthropist, no Warren Buffett, unless you make something first.
The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
I remember, when I first left Phoenix for L.A. I was 19, and I arrived with just $1000 to my name.
A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.
Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.
But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
Pierre Franey's producer wanted to do a show with me. This was around 1998, and I think we shot our first PBS show that same year.
When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.
