I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.
I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.
You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't.
I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.
I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.
After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.
When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
I knew I never wanted to become an archaeologist. But at school I became intrigued by what people were doing on an everyday basis in the past.
It's more enjoyable when I'm disguised in some way; stepping into someone else's shoes is part of the reason why I became an actor.
I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.
When I became obsessed with Winston Churchill, I wrote a book about Churchill. What a joy it was to write that book!
I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.
Nixon didn't mellow with his success, he became embittered by it.
I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.
Broccoli is not a Chinese vegetable; in fact, it is originally an Italian vegetable. It was introduced into the United States in the 1800s, but became popularized in the 1920s and the 1930s.
Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.
Prescott Bush was himself a president of the U. S. Golf Association at one time - 1935 - before he became a U.S. senator from the state of Connecticut.
The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.
Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.
I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.
I ran for my first office at 25 against an incumbent city councilman. I took 55% of the vote and became the youngest councilman in the area at the time.
