I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.
I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.
I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.
One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.
We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova.
The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.
First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.