‘Survivor’ wouldn’t have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on ‘Survivor’ was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.
It’s just something I’ve always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
I think I’m the first 1990-born guy to win a Masters 1000, so it’s quite special to be the first one in a very strong group of guys. There are a lot of guys playing great, and hopefully there are going to be a lot more coming.
I know the college rule is if they push you out of bounds, you can come back in and catch the ball, but I think the NFL rule is it doesn’t matter how you get out of bounds, you can’t be the first one to touch the ball. That’s what I think it is, I’m not really sure on that.
I think it’s hugely important to have a strong episode one; you can lose an audience so quickly now. You can’t afford to take the attitude that you will use the first one as an introduction and save the high drama for later.
Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
I was the first one in my family to go to college.
On the sequel, you’ve lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more.
If you have many children, the first one is always different because you can only have one child who is the first. They have different natures and talents for you to love.
My favorite musical? I don’t. It changes all the time. I’m just a diehard, I’m totally old school, like I’ll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there.
My later jobs as a waitress felt like a posh paradise after my first one at Boston Market.
My high school class was the first one to know, during the college recruiting process, to know there was the option to play professional basketball, to know that the WNBA was there, and to know I better pick a school that is going to help me get to the next level.
To what extent a film works is beyond me. My first film ‘Aashiq Banaya Aapne’ did wonders at the box office. Then ‘Chocolate’ was also quite popular, but it didn’t have the same effect as the first one.
I am the first one that knows when I am not doing well or I am doing well.
Anyone who’s had a tattoo knows once you get your first one, as you’re walking out the door, you’re planning the next.
There are certain things that I wish people knew – certain things that I feel I started and certain things that I’m responsible for. Sometimes you wish people knew where a certain style of rapping came from or who was the first one to say whatever.
Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, ‘Jesus! This cup is expensive!’
First 2Pac song I heard was ‘Brenda Got a Baby.’ That was the first one. I didn’t even hear it. I saw the video.
I’m always surprised when a sequel is not as good or better than the first one. I never understand that. You’ve already set your own bar. You’ve already done the hard work. It should be easier to make the second one, but a lot of the times, it’s not.
The second season is always easier than the first one. When you change, it’s always more difficult. You have to adapt to the way your team plays; you have to adapt to your team-mates, to the league, to the referees.
I think I’ve played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called ‘The Investigator,’ about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.
Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic.
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it’s in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.
Know that the tattoos are all significant. They’re all extremely insignificant. I can’t break each one down, but it’s 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.
‘The Secret Garden’ was the first musical that I fell in love with when I was a kid. My mom took me to see it, and it was the first one that I owned the soundtrack to and listened to over and over again.
I’m not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.
As for ‘Independence Day,’ we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.
There’s been a lot of crossing paths with the Yes camp over the years for me. The first one was when Dream Theater and Yes toured together in 2004, which was a lot of fun.
Well, of course, every actor’s limited, and I am the first one to admit it, in all honesty, when I think that I’ve hit the wall a bit. I’m not ashamed at all, I think it’s a process that you have to go through. That’s how you learn.
For me, becoming a father at 50-plus was another challenge, but then, I am neither the first one, nor the last in this category.
Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh’s flight across the ocean.
Age is just a number. For 18 months at Boro I was the first one in at training and one of the last out. I look at people like Manuel Pellegrini and Marcelo Bielsa and think they all have something to offer.
My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can’t listen to the first one.
I think you kind of need to acknowledge that the reason why sequels do well is because people that loved the first one come back.
There’s no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
The first one is your first World Cup, so you go into it with a lot of pressure, trying to take it all in, but you are just so focused.
I’ll tell you God’s truth: I think that this script that Neil has written – ‘Odd Couple Two,’ I think, is superior to the original one – to the first one.
I’ll tell you who doesn’t get enough credit, Soulja Boy. He was the first one to do something, post it, yank it down, and sell more records because of it.
I think sequels should be earned and we won’t do it unless the script is better than the first one.
I am actually hoping to write a series of books! The Amazon was the first one I got finished and have managed to get published! I have plenty more ideas up my sleeve!
It’s horrible dating with Mama Mai! She is nosy. When I was a kid she would be the first one eavesdropping on my phone calls: ‘Hello? Who you call for? Huh?’
The script for ‘In Good Company’ was the first one I ever showed my dad.
Kevin Durant would be welcome back in Oklahoma any time he’s willing to come, and I want to be the first one he calls. He took care of the victims of our tornadoes. He took care of families. Took care of little kids. So, he has a heart, and he’s not a bad ballplayer.
My brother is brutally honest with me – he always has been – and he’s the first one I text after games. He has a nice chat with me and tells me how I did. He’s one I’ve always looked up to, and I’ll always respect him for that.
I know I won’t be the first one to say this, but Suzuka is definitely my favourite circuit of the year.
One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein’s four rules of writing, one of which was, ‘You must finish what you write.’ I never had any problem with the first one, ‘You must write’ – I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.
The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o’clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn’t know.
My friend and I were talking about the band Limp Wrist, and how cool that name is, so we started bouncing other queer-punk band names off each other. The first one I thought of was The Power Bottoms, which I later shortened to Power Bottom.
I’m not one to throw anybody under a bus, but check this out: I’ll be the first one to step in front of it.
I think the most important goal I scored in Spain was the first one because people were wary about me coming over to Spain as a player – they thought I was just there to sell shirts.
I’m the first one to always criticize myself, and I’m trying to find ways to get better.
I have a soft spot for ‘Wind of Change’ because it was my first one, and it was a departure from Humble Pie – very much so. It showed me the spectrum of what I could do.
Girls love guys who dance, and I’m definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don’t hold back when it comes to dancing.
