It's first-hand experience such as this that, to a potential employer, might mark you out from the crowd.
"He said, 'Are we really going to let this slide?' And I was like, 'Yes, because that's how a smoker would sing.'" Music, more than any other art form, demands autobiography: we want our singers to be giving us authentic love or pain; we want to believe it's first-hand.
After all, it's third-hand and uncorroborated.
"Until we verify — or until the story begins to have consequences — it's second-hand information," he wrote.
When people turn up, it's second-hand.
In fact, now I think about it, it's preferable that it's second-hand.
"I don't blame people saying things even if it's fourth-hand, because they only know that, and it's horrible that the Chinese government wouldn't give people more information," she added.
Start it up! - when buying, do not buy second hand unless it is good quality, worth the price and your customers know that it is second hand.
Unless it is second hand (in which case the next two steps don't apply), once you have bought your glove, your glove will be stiff because it has never been used, and you will have a hard time catching the softball.
She knew it was too late for her husband but she could see what a horrible disease it was first-hand – as well as the toll it took on caregivers like herself.
"It was second-hand information," says Courtenay, "which unfortunately" continues to spread, so that Andrew is often mentioned as the reason for the catastrophic lionfish invasion.
