I think that first and foremost, a lot of turntable artists end up using really the same sounds over and over, and they really get recycled.
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
The arts are usually the first thing to be cut in schools or regional programs.
The first time I really listened to an album and thought, 'This album is mine,' was Kanye's 'Late Registration.'
The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s.
But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.
'2001: A Space Odyssey' - I'd watched and hated it seven times before it provided the first 'religious experience' I'd ever had watching a film. Finally, I was able to pick up on what the film was transmitting almost entirely through dialogue.
Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.
When I first heard 'Robocop' was going to be remade. I said, 'Yeah, that's interesting. I'll probably watch that at some point, but I'm not interested at all to be in it.'
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
When I was ready to buy my first home after years of renting, I immediately zeroed in on Dorchester.
At first, I was saying to my rep, 'I don't know if this is really my thing.' I get heart palpitations just watching basic comedy-horror stuff.
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
I play a replica of a banjo from the 1950s. It was the first commercial-style banjo in the United States so it's the first one that white people played.
Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out.
It's human when you get the sense that somebody likes you or is attracted to you - unless you're just completely repulsed by the person - I find that my first reaction is to entertain the idea.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
The first requisite for immortality is death.
