I discovered freedom for the first time in England.
Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.
He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.
Usually my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.
This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.
Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.
The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.
I recall that, the first time I met a Geordie speaker, it was some days before I could understand a single word he was saying.
I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.
A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.
From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
The first time I performed musically, I threw up.
It's not really a preparation when you know the character that you're playing. It's not too difficult. It would be more difficult the first time, I guess.
Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.
The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.
Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible
When I finished my last job, at Global Crossing, it was the first time in God knows how many years that I wasn't in a job. It was probably 32 years or so, and there I was, it was like pow!
There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.
The process with the play, obviously, it belongs to you by the time you're stepping on stage in front of that audience for the first time. You can change it by just a look or things you're not even conscious of, but it's such a full immersion.
If I'm meeting somebody for the first time, I don't look them up on Wikipedia, or I try not to, because I would not want somebody to be thinking they knew me based on that. It's like even private citizens have to deal with this persona phenomenon.
