No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.
Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.
I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that. . . That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.
Early risers are conceited in the morning and stupid in the afternoon.
The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.
It takes time to really get to know someone. Take the time because in the early months of a relationship, both parties are in the "selling" phase.
I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, "well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct".
Some people know that they are so adorable looking, all they have to do is smile and dress up and they get plenty from that. Then there are some of us who, early on, see that that doesn't work. So we joke about it.
Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
I was taught from a very early age that it was probably the most American thing you can do is to question what's going on and to try to fix things that you see that aren't right. I believed that as a young person, and I believe that today.
You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?
It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts.
During my early years, I thought I might be a musician. Like most kids, I didn't do what my parents wanted me to do. They were gung-ho that all their kids become actors. They loved showbiz so much. I am a product of nepotism, basically.
I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.
I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.
Instilling values of faith at an early age is important.
On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.
Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.
My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it.