I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!
I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because it made me open to lots of musical sounds.
The first willing concert I went to was Aerosmith when I was like 14.
It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.
A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
We have shown, given these last three years, that we were succeeding in fighting terrorists. While during the first 30 years of the former governments they didn't.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA.
I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern.