The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.
'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to 'Shantaram,' the first a prequel.
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.
When I first started, I tried to wear things I thought a 'Countdown' presenter should wear.
On September 11, 2001, Russia's then-president, Vladimir Putin, called U.S. President George W. Bush - making Putin the first international leader to speak with Bush after the attacks.
President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.
The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
When I was first assigned to cover the Republican presidential race in 2007, that meant covering John McCain. He was the next in line, and at that point that mattered in the GOP.
I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms.
My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.
When I got out of college and signed a contract to play pro football in the USFL, the first thing I bought was a Remington 1100 shotgun and a Remington .30-06.
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.
My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
A comparison of the average professional baseball salary to the national average salary over the last one hundred years shows that for the first fifty years, 1920-1970, baseball players held a steady multiple of about 3.4 times the national average income.
