Early Quotes

The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.

Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

There's certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it's tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who are there every week.

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.

We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.

I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.

I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

Our customer base is not necessarily a leader, an early adopter.

It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven.

And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we've done, I think it's just sort of natural that each one hasn't necessarily gotten the attention that the early ones did.

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.