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By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.
By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.
By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.
I would be proud if I can score as many runs as Rahul Dravid by the time I retire and serve the country as long as he did.
By the time I'm done with my show, I'm in Never-Never Land. Usually I leave the room for the auction and try to chill out.
I came from a family of extremely old money, and so by the time I was born, there was really just a trickle of money left.
Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
Things change. You walk on the street and get a Starbucks, and things have changed by the time you come back to the office.
By the time I got into test work, it was dying out. It wasn't really flight test at all; it was mostly testing new gadgets.
By the time I'm old, I'm sure I'll have lived a full enough life. I think we're mortal for a reason. Life gets tiring, man!
My whole game plan, at first, was I wanted to rock out as hard as I could because usually you're old by the time you're 24.
By the time I finished my first three films, I realised this is something I want to do for a long time, learn, and grow in.
By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.
By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does.
In WCW, your future was determined by the time you signed the contract. I was the lowest-paid guy in the company at $75,000.
By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.
One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.
I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different world.
I really don't retain information - by the time I arrive wherever I'm going, I already forget what it is that I wanted to say.
I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.
Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.
I can find myself in a situation where, by the time I'm releasing an album, I have the next one written. It is a bit old school.
I started off playing the harmonium and singing. By the time I was eight or so, my interest moved to Western instrumental music.
It's so hard to make noise coming from a small town that by the time you start branding yourself, you've grown in a certain way.
By the time I was 19 years old, I had lived in five different cities in four different countries and three different continents.
What adolescence is about is by trial and error, honing a frontal cortex that is going to be more optimal by the time you're 25.
By the time 'Dumbo's Circus' wrapped production of its 120 episodes, I had an agent, and I had scored my first feature film gig.
I didn't imagine getting to 50, let alone still be playing music. When I was 18, I thought it'd all be over by the time I was 21.
I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story - about my dog, of course.
Once you have a child, you change so much along the way, you don't even recognize yourself by the time they're ready to move out!
They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, they just don't fancy it any more.
With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.
When I was a kid. I had traveled the world by the time I was 13 years old because of all the competitions I did for inline skating.
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.
I'd worked on music docs for years. It felt like writing a novel. By the time I got to Keith Richards, it felt like making a sketch.
If you can build up a sense of self-confidence if you're non-white by the time you're 15, 16 then that can't be taken away from you.
By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.
It was the rootlessness that went with being the son of an RAF officer that shaped me. I had been to 11 schools by the time I was 9.
It's always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.
My brain goes in just one direction. The Future. I don't worry about the present. By the time you talk about the present, it's gone.
By the time Vince McMahon called upon me to become this character, the Million Dollar Man, I had already been wrestling for 12 years.
By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, one day decided to get a divorce.
My two things I always said is, No. 1, I'd be retired by the time I had my first kid, and No. 2, I'd be retired by the time I was 30.
My family - my mother and father had gone through such a hard time that by the time I graduated from sixth grade, they were separated.
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.