I didn't handle fame very well at first. I got a little resentful.
At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
I'm extremely grateful to all the first responders, veterans and their families for all their sacrifices.
First responders are a resilient lot. They deal with many types of situations and are very good at improvisation in their work.
Playing a cop on TV and working closely with actual cops on set, I do think the media does a disservice to our first responders.
Real heroes don't wear capes. Real superheroes wear uniforms and badges and stethoscopes! Real superheroes are members of our military, law enforcement, and first responders. Pretend superheroes wear capes!
It's a well-known fact that the TV camera adds 10 pounds. I don't want to say that I've been calling my Jenny Craig consultant a lot, but I'm pretty sure I'm the first spokesperson whom they've considered filing a restraining order against.
Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.
'Line Of Duty' is first and foremost a thriller. But I hope it will also be seen as a revisionist commentary on 21st century policing.
In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.
In many ways, shooting my first feature was more difficult than I had thought it would be, but it was still the most rewarding experience I have ever had.
When I first spit my first rhyme in public on my school bus, I had an audience.
I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.
When I first started snowboarding, there weren't a lot of girl riders on the hill.
My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood, pitched a few things, sold a couple of screenplays and a pilot that I wrote with a buddy from Spokane, flirted with seeing 'Citizen Vince' as a film, and most recently, adapted 'The Financial Lives of the Poets' as a script.
I shoot the same rifle I've shot since I killed my first deer with it when I was nine.
First of all: no one in their right mind would sign an exclusive contract.
I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.
