Illness played a great - and unwelcome - role in my early life. Mumps were soon followed by a raging sore throat, and it was decided that I should have my tonsils removed and adenoids scraped at the same time.
Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.
I'm not an early morning person.
The roughest part of that lifestyle is the travel and early mornings.
I started in theatre when I was 13 or 14 years old and did a lot of theatre until my early thirties. Off-Broadway stuff - off-off-off-off-Broadway stuff - and I do love it.
I suffered when I was in my late twenties and early thirties. I was awkward, I stuck out, I was nerdy.
I've been a much happier person in my early thirties than I was in my twenties.
During my Ph.D. program, I became interested in the informational structure of markets that turned into the work on signaling, which was the part of my early work that was recognized for the Nobel Prize, but it was not really a subject at the time.
My early years as a 'speaker' involved note cards that shook like a leaf while I held them because I was so nervous.
My mom and I don't have a lot of photos of my early years.
My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.
I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.
Eddie George was outstanding early.
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
After a series of jobs that I prefer not to recall, I was hired in the early eighties as fashion editor of 'New York' magazine.
I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong.
When, in 1949, I decided to join the little band of early explorers who had followed Albert Claude in his pioneering expeditions, electron microscopy was still in its infancy.
As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.
Innate mechanisms endow the visual system with highly specific connections, but visual experience early in life is necessary for their maintenance and full development. Deprivation experiments demonstrate that neural connections can be modulated by environmental influences during a critical period of postnatal development.
There was a substantial vinyl collection in my home, and my mom played piano. We, the children, were enrolled in piano lessons very early on.
