I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp, in New Jersey, from the time I was 6, and then I was a counselor there through high school.
I learned at a young age what chasing flavors meant, and I’ve been doing that my whole life.
From a young age I’ve always known my game pretty well and coming from a club like Yorkshire you are generally taught to say what you think. If you don’t say what you think then someone else does.
I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.
My father taught me poker at a very young age and I’ve been playing for money since I was 14 years old.
I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.
At a very young age, when I was a baby, I used to mimic all of these movies, like ‘Dreamgirls’ and ‘Ray,’ the type of movies you wouldn’t think a little kid would know. But my parents thought I was great.
We have two issues – not enough young girls starting in karting at a young age and no clear role model. Sometimes you just have to see it to believe it.
I figured it out at a young age: I could meet as many young people online and try to form my own family or my own record label group.
When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.
My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that’s where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.
My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called ‘High Society,’ so we moved to New York for the run of that.
I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it’s instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic in our career.
The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as much as they could, so they put me in a private school when I was super young.
I absolutely don’t relate to being beaten down my whole life – I had amazing opportunities at a young age – but there is still in many, many people’s minds the notion that I’ll never be able to escape Harry Potter.
Not too many people know what a pentathlon is or what’s involved, which is why visiting schools is good because they can learn about it at a young age and hopefully try it out.
I don’t think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it’s a real crime.
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.
My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
It’s so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.
My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.
I like films and I have been watching films from a young age. So, making films happened to be a natural progression.
I learned construction and carpentry from my father at a young age, so I felt very comfortable and I felt very satisfied when I worked in that field.
The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories – stories from my grandfather, the legendary ocean explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. My passion for ocean conservation stems from learning at a very young age that we’re all connected; we’re all in this together.
From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world’s problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.
I read ‘The Washington Post’ every day from a very young age. Reading the newspaper taught me how to organize my thoughts on the page. Meaning, it taught me how to write.
All across this country, undocumented immigrants are living in fear of seeing their families torn apart because of our broken immigration system. Many of those immigrants are children who were brought here at a young age through no fault of their own.
I’d had to cope with a lot of death and illness in my family from a young age, and that maybe gave me a bleak outlook on the world.
The things that transpired in my life, they didn’t happen in the order that they’re supposed to, or are ideal. Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.
From a very young age, I would fall off the bed and wake up on the floor because of dreams. I have a memory from the age of four in which I felt God.
I was involved with MySpace and Facebook and everything at a very young age because it’s so casual now, and I’m into texting, obviously. But I’ve never been involved in any type of chat room. My parents are pretty cautious about it and know all my passwords and know who my friends are and who I’m talking to.
I was very successful from a very young age… there was never a bad period.
Northeastern folk music influenced me from a very young age. Sachin Dev Burman is one of the inspirational musicians in Indian film music. The way he fused folk music with his signature style is amazing. So, I am aware of the beauty of northeast folk music.
When you’re put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you’re able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that’s a beautiful thing.
I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.
Doris Day started performing at a young age, had a tough road to success, and once she achieved it delivered the goods 100 percent and brilliantly, always making difficult work look as easy as breathing.
My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.
My parents are musicians. I was listening to the radio and recording songs off the radio on cassette tapes and playing guitars and pianos. Just emotionally responding to music from a very young age.
A lot of people say I’ve missed out on a lot because I started acting at such a young age. What’s so obvious to me is that I actually was really lucky. I gained a lot and I got a head start in what I wanted to do in life. A lot of people in their late 20s, early 30s are just beginning to figure out where they want to go.
Anyone who comes out of Brazil at a young age and comes over to Europe has got to have a big heart and a big personality.
My mom, she was, at a young age, caught up in the worldly ways. At that time, it was very intriguing to be out partying and having fun. As a young mother, she was caught in that.
The mistakes you make and lessons you learn at a young age are what gets you to an Olympic level.
I’ve always been interested in exploring the concept of child prodigies. When I was younger, I wrote a story about Mozart as a child, and I just always loved this idea of young people who are able to take control of their lives and bring a whole lot of change at such a young age.
I wanted to act from a young age and it didn’t seem like a reality for me growing up.
We need to have mental health support and early interventions integrated into our education system from a young age.
My goal for children’s books is to have them become tableside or bedside classics. To me, it would be awesome to write a book that every kid would end up reading at some point in their life because influencing kids in a positive way at such a young age is really cool.
We’re really taught to be followers from a very young age – men lead and women follow.
I’ve made money from a young age but it’s never taken away from my love of skateboarding. I don’t just do this for money.
The Queen is not supposed to have a favourite or prefer anything. From a very young age, they are taught that if you fall down, you don’t make a face; you keep your emotions under control, and you don’t let other people know what you’re feeling. That’s a very different kind of way of thinking from how I was brought up.
Mum didn’t have shoes. She was the eldest of 10 kids, and some nights they went without food. That’s why, from a young age, I wanted to work hard and change that cycle, to provide not only for my parents but my siblings, too.
