Top 342 Earlier Quotes

I’m a big fan of Clint Eastwood, but the Westerns I draw from most directly come from an earlier period in Hollywood. I actually look back at movies like ‘Rio Bravo’ and others I’ve liked over the years, and I capture pictures from the movies and use them as a reference for the scenes I create.
Steve Sheinkin
At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.
Sachin Tendulkar
To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I’m over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London.
Paula Radcliffe
I feel like I wasted my time in my twenties. When you are beginning to realise your potential you wish you’d realized it earlier.
Spencer Matthews
That studies have shown that more people are getting up earlier, they’re getting their news earlier. They’re getting less sleep, getting up at earlier hours.
Katie Couric
My earlier film ‘Punda’ did not give people a glimpse of what I could do as my role was that of a typical glamour doll that required me to run around trees.
Meghana Raj
When I published a book earlier this year about Uber, the most common question I got about it was how many of the tumultuous events of 2017 I was able to include. My gag-line response: I managed to cover the first 17 scandals of the year, but not Nos. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and so on.
Adam Lashinsky
I’ve never really had a first date! Well, I had kind of a first date. I went out with this kid. We went ice skating, but it was not fun. It was so terrible that I told him my curfew was a lot earlier than it really was.
Keke Palmer
Edgar Allan Poe, an earlier UVA student, once complained in a letter that his stepfather spoke to him as if Poe were one of the black slaves; some of the students at UVA surely felt the same about being told what to do by faculty.
Matthew Pearl
A new medium always has a period when it is struggling inside the confining box of an earlier medium. Creators have to unlearn what they knew before they can see the fresh, uncharted vistas stretching before them.
Dave Morris
What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.
Pete Townshend
I wish I was born 20 years earlier so I could have worked with Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt, and K. Asif.
Deepti Naval
Some of the earlier stuff I did in studio with producers was very pop-directed, which I was uncomfortable with.
Hozier
My only regret is that I didn’t get into acting ten years earlier when I was handsome!
Paul Kaye
Before the ‘Fast & Furious’ promo in Manila, I went on a vacation in the Philippines 10 years earlier. I loved it. My ‘Miss Saigon’ friends showed me around.
Luke Evans
Well, the first thing to say is that we’ve worked hard to maintain compatibility, so that any program written with an earlier version of Mathematica can run without change in 3.0, and any notebook can be converted.
Stephen Wolfram
I am conscious that each film I do is in stark contrast to the earlier one.
Catherine Tresa
Earlier I used to be a shy girl.
Amrapali Gupta
I don’t think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.
David R. Brower
But we were really locked in to that kind of format, and as the ’90s wore on, it became for me more solidified, in that sense that there weren’t as many of those magical shows that were just magic all the way through as there had been in earlier years.
Phil Lesh
Every human on the planet is descended from both slaves and slave owners. What makes Britain unusual is not that we engaged in the disgusting trade, but that we eliminated it. Our political institutions led us, earlier than many, to the conclusion that freedom was the highest virtue.
Daniel Hannan
As far back as I remember, and earlier, I was an artisan, a maker and doer. Mechanically minded, my parents said.
John Sulston
Don’t keep rewriting and polishing something if it isn’t setting the world on fire: start something new instead and consider the earlier story a learning experience.
Alastair Reynolds
Earlier, if I gave three to four flops continuously, I survived because there was not much competition. But now the scenario has changed and it’s always better to choose good scripts.
Nithiin
One of my earlier films is ‘Quigley Down Under.’ That was early on in my career, and that was horsey.
Ben Mendelsohn
I will try to do everything to finish the fight earlier

I will try to do everything to finish the fight earlier as I can. No more, no more.
Valentina Shevchenko
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
Gertrude Jekyll
Earlier, actors had a lot of power in their hands. And now, it has gone in the hands of the directors and writers, and that is how it should be. They are the visionaries, and we are the doers.
Bhumi Pednekar
We all know that the earlier cancer is detected the more successful treatment will be, and my cancer had spread to my ribs and that was a very fast-growing cancer.
Mazie Hirono
I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up – I didn’t have an agent or anything. It was for ‘Chicago.’ There were probably three hundred people there.
Kate Levering
I have always enjoyed keeping. I used to keep earlier for my state and later didn’t have much chance to keep. But I keep myself ready if ever anyone wants me to keep.
K. L. Rahul
Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
Liz Truss
The team behind ‘The Lego Movie’ approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee ‘Everything is Awesome.’ They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.
Nathan Sawaya
You think the weather is weird now? Just wait. A new MIT study, just published in a peer-reviewed journal, projects that the Earth could see warming of more than 9 degrees F by 2100 – more than twice earlier projections.
Jeff Goodell
There’s a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that you either have to be able to handle or not. What you can’t do is try to force yourself into roles that you could have played or would have played ten years earlier.
George Clooney
Age is not different from earlier life as long as you’re sitting down.
Malcolm Cowley
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier – Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.
Eric S. Raymond
I come from a family of tall, curvy women. I developed in my body and my shape far earlier, so from a young age I accepted it. I embraced it and saw it as an advantage.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
Georg Trakl
Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I’ve regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
Adam Savage
Earlier, the notion was such that TV actors are overexposed and that they can’t do films, but now it’s not like that.
Hina Khan
In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.
Ishmael Beah
After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life – my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world – with some objectivity and even some humor.
Amanda Lindhout
Earlier, we had shows like ‘Hasratein’ and ‘Shanti,’ which had great storylines and mature content. Now, with a hundred shows running five to seven days a week, the TV industry has become very torturous and taxing for the actors.
Himani Shivpuri
Strangely enough, among my dad’s things, I found the diary of an ancestor who was born in 1797 and became a ventriloquist in London. That was quite chilling. It described exactly how I was as a child but 150 years earlier – doing voices, pretending to be a ventriloquist.
Christopher Guest
Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic movement.
Jim Lee
Organic farming and other earlier methods can be effective, provided they can help us improve soil health and plant health. Plant pesticides like neem and tobacco need to be promoted.
M. S. Swaminathan
My maturity level has increased, as earlier I was rather childish and was easily influenced by what others used to say, and I have changed myself a lot. Now, I understand things before doing anything and also, I used to say anything, but I think one should think carefully before speaking.
Shehnaaz Gill
Every role I have in my kitty is different. None of them resemble the roles I have played in my earlier films.
Dia Mirza
Earlier, I used to take up any role that came my way. But now I feel that I should take time and consider the role before taking it up.
Pankaj Tripathi
I find it strange that our children, teenagers are kept captive listening in classrooms. Earlier education was for career and livelihood. Now, it has to rise to solve the crisis facing the earth and nations have to pay attention to the education of children to save this planet.
Sonam Wangchuk
A lot of us were wondering, what is Trump really going to be like? He used to support Democrats and have various views earlier in his life about politics.
Mitch McConnell