As a youngster he drew everything from animals to people but by the time he was eight, he had already found his niche for drawing buildings, according to his sister, Annette.
He didn't learn English until he was eight and says he spent much of his childhood in and around the Los Angeles River, wading for crawdads or hunting rabbits with a bow and arrow.
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Doing the math you realize that means he was eight years old when he joined.
When he was eight or nine, he says, his grandfather taught him how to shoot by aiming a .22 at squirrels and rabbits.
He was eight months old when he came to us, so we've had him for close to three -- he'll be three in October.
Following a successful loan spell at Bolton, where he scored eight goals in 12 games, he found his path into the Chelsea team blocked by the arrival of Fernando Torres.
He scored eight league goals last season as he made it to the fringe of the full Spanish international squad with a string of outstanding displays from the right side of attack.
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When Carlos Beltran came up, I mentioned his prodigious post-season with the Astros in 2004, when he hit eight home runs, just before he went to the Mets as a free agent.
He spent eight years earning his doctorate at Rice Institute (he wrote his thesis on "A Characterization of the Set of Asymptotic Values of a Function Holomorphic in the Unit Disc").
Anthony hadn't spent his entire childhood in New York when he was eight, his family moved to Baltimore, where he ascended into a high school star but there was enough thread to spin a homecoming narrative.
Unheralded Dutchman Joost Luiten had looked set to lead the way as he reached eight under, but finishing at the ninth, he spoiled his round with a run of four straight bogeys to close with a 68.
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He struck eight fours and a six in a commanding innings that ended eight short of a deserved century in the 47th over when he lofted Clint McKay to wide long-on where Doug Bollinger held a well-judged catch.
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He spends eight hours a day between Twitter and Facebook, and has 59, 200 followers on Twitter.
One day, when he was seven or eight, he came across a hole in the ground.
He allowed eight hits and struck out five, throwing 58 of 87 pitches for strikes.
Then in the second round, he fell eight votes short of an absolute majority.
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That job led to him being hired for The Simpsons, where he spent eight seasons.
He took eight AP exams in a single year, teaching himself much of the material.
In prison, he told Hasan, he saw eight people crammed into a room meant for one.
He lasted eight months, replaced by a junta of three men, one of them Mr Perez.
He said he expected eight of these positions "to be filled in the very near future".
My brother, Kim, and I had started collecting butterflies when he was eight and I was six.
He slugged eight homers in 191 at-bats last season, including a franchise-record five as a pinch hitter.
His father was murdered when he was eight months old, his mother started drinking not long after.
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He made eight changes to the team, with Ashley Young, Stewart Downing and Marc Albrighton named as substitutes.
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After his release, he robbed eight more banks, said Mr. Rehder, the FBI agent who helped catch him twice.
Next, he threw eight grammatical features, all related to word order, into the mix, and ran the game again.
He killed eight pupils, wounded 15 other people, including two teachers, and apparently never showed a flicker of remorse.
He spent eight months in a mental institution and was diagnosed as bipolar.
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