We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house. – Iman
My mom had early rap records, like Jimmy Spicer. In the middle of the records was a turntable and a receiver – I used to scratch records on it – and on top was a reel-to-reel. In front of that wall were more stacks of records. It was either Mom’s record or Pop’s record, and they had their names on each and every one. – Jay-Z
If I have to advise our brothers in France, I’ll tell them one thing – move to Israel, as early as possible. I say that to Jews all around the world, but there I think it’s a must and they have to move immediately. – Ariel Sharon
I had two surgeries during the early part of 2012, and I was advised to restrict my work load. – Amitabh Bachchan
At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals. – Andrew Rannells
‘The Outlaw Josey Wales’ is one I watched again and again and again in the early days of VHS. – Ben Mendelsohn
I have the utmost respect for synthesizers – Soft Cell, early Depeche Mode. But that’s become a cliche for the ’80s. – Ariel Rechtshaid
I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web. – Alan Dean Foster
The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere. – Barton Gellman
There’s a whole generation out there who don’t know that I was a pop singer in the early days. – Cilla Black
As the Nasdaq soared in 1999 and early 2000, demand for many offerings far exceeded the supply of shares available at the initial offering price. – Alex Berenson
Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen. – Alice Morse Earle
I see the Internet as the next big deal – I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn’t get behind it all. – Bruce Campbell
I was interested in a lot of subjects from very early on. And that’s uniquely Chicano because every Chicano I knew always had three jobs. – Cheech Marin
The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution. – Britt Daniel
As the Chief of the Defence Staff says, you don’t defend on the goal line. Defending the interests of the U.K. means tackling threats early and at source, and that means intervening overseas. – Bob Ainsworth
In my neighborhood growing up, 8, 10,12 kids were the norm. Those stay-at-home moms would handle so much physically and emotionally. Even in my early teens, I could tell those ladies were something. – Bonnie Hunt
Wil Wheaton, Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes were all the early formidable crushes of my girlhood. – Autumn Reeser
I’ve always been charmed by houses, and descriptions of them are prominent in my novels. So prominent, in fact, that my editor once pointed out to me that all of my early novels had houses on the covers. – Anita Shreve
Since the early Nineties it’s been very fashionable to say, ‘It’s all about the music.’ – Chris Robinson
One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place. – Brian O’Driscoll
I’m happy being an actor, it’s what I have always wanted to do. I’m just lucky I got to do it so early. – Charlie Hunnam
I realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals. – Benedict Cumberbatch
The idea that fiction can capture the stories that fall through the cracks of history informed ‘A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,’ which progresses across the two Chechen Wars of the 1990s and early 2000s. – Anthony Marra
Even before I joined journalism, I knew that this is what I wanted to do. Tintin was an early inspiration. – Bobby Ghosh