Pastoral Resources

First of all: no one in their right mind would sign an exclusive contract.

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.

Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.

Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready.

I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45.

I doing casual labor by the day. They wouldn't pay you until the next morning. There was a bar that would cash your check if you bought a beer first. A lot of guys never left until they'd drunk up all their money.

I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don't worry if blokes are whacking you out of the park because you still have the opportunity to get him out next ball, even if it's not the same ball.

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.