I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.
Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.
I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.
For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.
I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.
My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
At the fall, we became alienated not only from God and other people but also from ourselves.
I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends.
I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.
But then again, impossible never became rumour, did it?
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Some unifying principles bind all Christians: that God became a man and died for our sins, and that without that sacrifice, all of us would be doomed.
I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.
As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.
I was never really comfortable doing comedy. Though it was good the first couple of years, there were problems, and it became a stifling experience. I was happy it ended.
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.
Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall' eventually became was something that absolutely engaged the audience.
The minute my hair went, I shaved it. Thank God it became kind of cool. I just have really big ears.
