Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.
I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature
I am now celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first request for my resignation. I look forward to many more.
When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn’t understand what these instruments were meant to be doing
When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
If we're going to conquer our opponents, we must first conquer our own fears.
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.
The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was Wedding Crashers.
I was freaking out. I had my first pimple and I was like, what is this? I didn't know what to do with myself. Now it's all gone, but it's so weird, what you put inside of your body.
I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it. '
Who has not first tried to get out of a tough situation before truly dealing with it?
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams of our ancestors a century ago and obtain direct visual experience of phenomena in a dimension higher than our own.
Well, we’re going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is we’re going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer.
I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
Where the observer is at first a real goodness realized, later it is a sophisticated power holder. The observer is given power and control that belongs to oneness. When oneness has that power and that control, there is love.
For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights under the First Amendment. Only in recent years have we witnessed this corporate takeover of our First Amendment, culminating in the Citizens United ruling.