I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.
My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'
When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know.
Dick Wolf was my first boss after coming out of Sarah Lawrence.
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.
On first blush, Hold 'em seems like a ridiculously simple game.
It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.
Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.
Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.
My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy.