Wright was born on September 22, 1941, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and took an interest in religion at an early age.
Novelist Nadine Gordimer, who calls Mahlasela a "national treasure, " took an interest in him at an early age and arranged guitar lessons.
Mr Kleisterlee would like a more focused Philips, dominated by high-tech products and displaying the same pioneering spirit in the Internet age that made it an early leader in the electrical age a century ago.
Molitor said children should be involved in financial planning from an early age.
"What I love about Madden is that it teaches kids like my sons Michael and Elijah how to read man in zone defenses at an early age, " Hall of Famer Irvin said.
Girls in Tlemcen are initiated into the costume tradition at an early age, while the craftsmanship involved in making the precious wedding costume is transmitted from generation to generation.
Smerconish became a radio and television commentator after experiences he had at an early age in Republican politics.
Thatcher was schooled from an early age in an ethic of hard work and self-reliance.
He sang with doo-wop groups on the street corner in his Brooklyn neighborhood at an early age.
Dying was not something he had in mind at this early an age.
The London branch of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) has always benefited from a steady supply of immigrants who trained with Gaelic football clubs from an early age in Ireland.
Or that Dickens was an early crusader for international enforcement of copyrights, nonexistent in an age of unchecked literary piracy.
Jerry Seinfeld, 58, and Jon Stewart, 49, are two other comics who fell in love with the Mets at an early age.
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She started competing in able-bodied riding at an early age, looping the reins around her good fingers and carrying two whips instead of one to help guide the horse and compensate for her lack of leg function.
After rising to a senior position in the Ministry of Industry at an unusually early age, he was appointed the CEO of Pechiney at 40.
Born in 1922, Kerouac began writing from an early age and took to carrying a notebook with him wherever he went, scribbling down notes and penning long, rambling letters to friends and family.
Despite his difficult start to life, Pistorius was keen on sport from an early age and competed in waterpolo, cricket, tennis, triathlons and Olympic wrestling and boxing before he smashed his knee while playing rugby at the age of 16.
You all know the story -- losing his mom, being raised and adopted by an aunt and uncle, growing up in a home without electricity or water, having to work at an early age.
And from an early age, they instilled in Elena not just the value of a good education, but the importance of using it to serve others.
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The UN Special Representative on Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlstrom, said the disaster showed that more must be done "to ensure early warning systems are effective in an age when climate change is intensifying the impact of typhoons".
Gregory said young children in the area are often introduced to guns at an early age.
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From an early age she's been repeatedly in trouble, first at school, later with the authorities.
Family members said Thursday that the violence in Mr. Ward's neighborhood affected him from an early age, when he had to walk six blocks to his elementary school.
High school dropout and native of the Midwest John Simplot (pictured above left) bought and sold hogs in his youth after moving to Idaho from Iowa at an early age.
He showed a strong will from an early age, once swimming across frigid Lake Como in the middle of winter.
From an early age, Louise loved to help Terry out in their fruit and vegetable shops in Blackwood and Porthcawl and was used to mixing with the customers.
Born in New York City, Mr. Edelman gravitated to journalism at an early age, producing a camp newspaper as a teenager and graduating from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
In an interview with the BBC, Dr Fisher who retired last year at the early age of 56, said he had no other option.
From an early age he adopted a foppish, bohemian style, and in due course, having thrown over his studies in engineering and the possibility of a legal career, he became a man of letters.
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