I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.

By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician.

By the time you do what somebody else is doing, everybody has moved on to something else.

Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

By the time I finished school, I found out I wasn't qualified to study anything but music.

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.

I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.

A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.

By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

By the time I am Howard's age I hope to be long retired. I don't plan on working that long.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.

By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.

I know that by the time I was in middle school, Andre Norton was definitely my favorite author.

Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents' books because there weren't teenage books then.

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.

I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.

By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

I've had scenes where I had to cry, and by the time I've cried for the 20th time, I'm exhausted.

I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

By the time I was three years old, I'd lived at 10 different addresses in six different countries.

By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

By the time I got to George Washington University, I had been a straight-A student in high school.

By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.

By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.

By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.

By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do.

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

I made a prediction when I was 11 that I would be world champion by the time I was 21, and I did it.

I had white family members, black family members, white friends, black friends by the time I was 16.

I started my own martial arts school at 16. And by the time I was 21, I had three different schools.

I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books.

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

By the time we went to Doctor Simon I think Barney had been totally disabled for at least six months.

I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I'd wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots.

By the time I reached middle school, I fully identified myself not even as biracial but just as black.

I had gone to a Catholic prep school where everyone was rich and having kids by the time they were 30.

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