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CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT![]()
I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.
DAVID GUTERSON When I was around 13 years old, I started playing in bands and became obsessed with Blink-182 and Ne...
CASSADEE POPE![]()
I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.
KAMAND KOJOURI![]()
The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
VINCENT CASSEL![]()
I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started tr...
JESSE EISENBERG When I grew into a teenager, I became obsessed with Marlon Brando, Montgomery Cliff, and James Dean.
WILLIAM FORSYTHE![]()
The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. T...
ALEX LIFESON I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being a...
JULIA SWEENEY![]()
I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and ...
EZRA KOENIG I just saw 'Tiny Furniture' and became so obsessed with it that Judd Apatow jokes that I'...
JENNIFER KONNER Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the...
FATIMA SANA SHAIKH I started taking courses and became an oil painter, and then an instructor.
D.C. WORTHEN![]()
When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrat...
CAMILA ALVES![]()
I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly un...
LAURA MENNELL![]()
I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.
TERI POLO I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more to...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON![]()
When I started studying him, then became semi-obsessed with him, I saw the parallels, ... In our age...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dati...
NATASHA LEGGERO The fact that I could secure an opera engagement made me realize I had within me the making of an ar...
ENRICO CARUSO I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for ...
JOHN COLLISON![]()
I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls' private Catholic school, and one o...
DANIELA BOBADILLA Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food d...
NAOMIE HARRIS It started when Charles became president. He became more active and the group more actively tried to...
GARY HILL When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in ...
CHALEY ROSE Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the interne...
NIKLAS ZENNSTROM My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or ei...
KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model.
JANICE DICKINSON![]()
When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be i...
JAMAICA KINCAID![]()
I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think...
BARTON GELLMAN![]()
My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watch...
JOSH GAD I started as an orderly (at Charleroi-Monessen) to earn money to go to lab school. I became a lab te...
ERNIE JACKSON I'm finding that people enjoy the film no matter their age. I started out making a film for teens, b...
FERNANDO EIMBCKE![]()
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISON![]()
Making playlists can kill a whole afternoon for me. I like building very specific playlists for new ...
JONATHAN MABERRY![]()
I've been wanting this game for a long time. The older I got, the more I became an LSU fan.
JASON MITCHELL![]()
I started to develop my comedy skills when I became resident singer at the Boggery Folk Club in Soli...
JASPER CARROTT I became more aggressive and didn't just settle for the simple things.
ALEKS MARIC![]()
And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISON![]()
When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe t...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ I started coming to UTEP games in 1965 and became a season-ticket holder in 1970.
AL GONZALES I have been an exercise instructor at the Y for a couple of years. I took more classes and I became ...
ANGIE POMPA When I started windsurfing, it was a hobby, and I enjoyed the lifestyle. Then it became an Olympic d...
BRYONY SHAW![]()
I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big st...
CAT STEVENS I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big st...
YUSUF ISLAM With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of ...
BRUCE CONNER![]()
After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But y...
IMAN I became obsessed with scoring goals. I scored a lot of goals last year just using my speed to get b...
CALEN CARR Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own caree...
CESAR ROMERO After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalys...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD![]()
I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my o...
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career...
CALVIN KLEIN I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
VALENTINO GARAVANI Some say that pregnancy make a woman an instant mother. To that I say, I became an instant woman the...
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ![]()
As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.
BILLY GRAHAM![]()
I love Britney (Spears). I want to do nothing but support her and praise her. I became obsessed with...
MADONNA![]()
In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This ma...
MALCOLM GLADWELL![]()
My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successfu...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own c...
CESAR ROMERO![]()
I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
HANNELI MUSTAPARTA![]()
When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe t...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ![]()
Drumming completely eclipsed my life from age 13, when I started drum lessons. Everything disappeare...
NEIL PEART In no time, what I wished for, I became.
ALICE HOFFMAN (GREEN ANGEL)![]()
The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.
JONI EARECKSON TADA![]()
In my teens and university and stuff, video games became more realistic, or they started to.
BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY![]()
In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN![]()
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front ...
LYKKE LI That little demo I wrote became the main title of the motion picture, and that started everything.
DANNY ELFMAN![]()
I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense ...
RAY KURZWEIL I became infatuated with them.
BRUCE BOND![]()
You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. ...
STEVEN SEAGAL I used to be obsessed with game shows. When the Game Show Network became popular in the late '90...
KATE MICUCCI I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 1766![]()
I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another...
ROBERT SMITH Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone ...
BILL LASWELL![]()
I will take what I can from Edward. And then I will let them fade into history, all the characters i...
J.P. DELANEY![]()
But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testim...
T. D. JAKES I started out with friends of mine in high school beat boxing. Everyone would sort of like be in a c...
MATISYAHU MILLER![]()
And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.
JOHN STEINBECK![]()
I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN![]()
I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.
AUSTIN PECK Just don't. It doesn't make you cool at all. That's what I was. I was a social smoker. The more peop...
KATIE SCHMIDT A lot of it (coming out for football) had to do with Coach Robert; I just wanted to quiet him. I kin...
ANDREW SHERWOOD![]()
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything...
EARL WEAVER![]()
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything e...
EARL WEAVER I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confide...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR![]()
My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, w...
LEONARD NIMOY I can play the trumpet. Before I became an actor, I wanted to be the next Louis Armstrong. I started...
DOUGLAS BOOTH![]()
I became merely a pawn used to produce more money for Warner Bros.
PRINCE![]()
Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked...
HARUKI MURAKAMI My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equ...
EMMA MCLAUGHLIN Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some ...
JOCK STURGES I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.
JOAN ARK I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.
JOAN VAN ARK![]()
I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a tr...
THE WEEKND I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started ...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK![]()
Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE The more I learned, the more I became broadly talented, and that worked to my advantage over time.
CANDACE COMBS She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING [The symptoms eventually became too severe to ignore.] He became very violent, and I couldn't handle...
LINDA DANO
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT
I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block. DAVID GUTERSON When I was around 13 years old, I started playing in bands and became obsessed with Blink-182 and Ne...
CASSADEE POPE
I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art. KAMAND KOJOURI
The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet. VINCENT CASSEL
I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started tr... JESSE EISENBERG When I grew into a teenager, I became obsessed with Marlon Brando, Montgomery Cliff, and James Dean.
WILLIAM FORSYTHE
The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. T... ALEX LIFESON I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being a...
JULIA SWEENEY
I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and ... EZRA KOENIG I just saw 'Tiny Furniture' and became so obsessed with it that Judd Apatow jokes that I'...
JENNIFER KONNER Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the...
FATIMA SANA SHAIKH I started taking courses and became an oil painter, and then an instructor.
D.C. WORTHEN
When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrat... CAMILA ALVES
I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly un... LAURA MENNELL
I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting. TERI POLO I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more to...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON
When I started studying him, then became semi-obsessed with him, I saw the parallels, ... In our age... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dati...
NATASHA LEGGERO The fact that I could secure an opera engagement made me realize I had within me the making of an ar...
ENRICO CARUSO I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for ...
JOHN COLLISON
I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls' private Catholic school, and one o... DANIELA BOBADILLA Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food d...
NAOMIE HARRIS It started when Charles became president. He became more active and the group more actively tried to...
GARY HILL When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in ...
CHALEY ROSE Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the interne...
NIKLAS ZENNSTROM My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or ei...
KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model.
JANICE DICKINSON
When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be i... JAMAICA KINCAID
I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think... BARTON GELLMAN
My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watch... JOSH GAD I started as an orderly (at Charleroi-Monessen) to earn money to go to lab school. I became a lab te...
ERNIE JACKSON I'm finding that people enjoy the film no matter their age. I started out making a film for teens, b...
FERNANDO EIMBCKE
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous. TONI MORRISON
Making playlists can kill a whole afternoon for me. I like building very specific playlists for new ... JONATHAN MABERRY
I've been wanting this game for a long time. The older I got, the more I became an LSU fan. JASON MITCHELL
I started to develop my comedy skills when I became resident singer at the Boggery Folk Club in Soli... JASPER CARROTT I became more aggressive and didn't just settle for the simple things.
ALEKS MARIC
And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous. TONI MORRISON
When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe t... ANNIE LEIBOVITZ I started coming to UTEP games in 1965 and became a season-ticket holder in 1970.
AL GONZALES I have been an exercise instructor at the Y for a couple of years. I took more classes and I became ...
ANGIE POMPA When I started windsurfing, it was a hobby, and I enjoyed the lifestyle. Then it became an Olympic d...
BRYONY SHAW
I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big st... CAT STEVENS I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big st...
YUSUF ISLAM With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of ...
BRUCE CONNER
After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But y... IMAN I became obsessed with scoring goals. I scored a lot of goals last year just using my speed to get b...
CALEN CARR Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own caree...
CESAR ROMERO After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalys...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD
I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my o... CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career...
CALVIN KLEIN I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
VALENTINO GARAVANI Some say that pregnancy make a woman an instant mother. To that I say, I became an instant woman the...
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ
As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving. BILLY GRAHAM
I love Britney (Spears). I want to do nothing but support her and praise her. I became obsessed with... MADONNA
In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This ma... MALCOLM GLADWELL
My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successfu... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own c...
CESAR ROMERO
I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling. HANNELI MUSTAPARTA
When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe t... ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
Drumming completely eclipsed my life from age 13, when I started drum lessons. Everything disappeare... NEIL PEART In no time, what I wished for, I became.
ALICE HOFFMAN (GREEN ANGEL)
The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became. JONI EARECKSON TADA
In my teens and university and stuff, video games became more realistic, or they started to. BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY
In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front ... LYKKE LI That little demo I wrote became the main title of the motion picture, and that started everything.
DANNY ELFMAN
I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense ... RAY KURZWEIL I became infatuated with them.
BRUCE BOND
You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. ... STEVEN SEAGAL I used to be obsessed with game shows. When the Game Show Network became popular in the late '90...
KATE MICUCCI I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 1766
I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another... ROBERT SMITH Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone ...
BILL LASWELL
I will take what I can from Edward. And then I will let them fade into history, all the characters i... J.P. DELANEY
But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testim... T. D. JAKES I started out with friends of mine in high school beat boxing. Everyone would sort of like be in a c...
MATISYAHU MILLER
And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed. JOHN STEINBECK
I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real. AUSTIN PECK Just don't. It doesn't make you cool at all. That's what I was. I was a social smoker. The more peop...
KATIE SCHMIDT A lot of it (coming out for football) had to do with Coach Robert; I just wanted to quiet him. I kin...
ANDREW SHERWOOD
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything... EARL WEAVER
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything e... EARL WEAVER I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confide...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR
My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, w... LEONARD NIMOY I can play the trumpet. Before I became an actor, I wanted to be the next Louis Armstrong. I started...
DOUGLAS BOOTH
I became merely a pawn used to produce more money for Warner Bros. PRINCE
Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked... HARUKI MURAKAMI My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equ...
EMMA MCLAUGHLIN Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some ...
JOCK STURGES I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.
JOAN ARK I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.
JOAN VAN ARK
I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a tr... THE WEEKND I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started ...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK
Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe. SHIRLEY TEMPLE The more I learned, the more I became broadly talented, and that worked to my advantage over time.
CANDACE COMBS She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING [The symptoms eventually became too severe to ignore.] He became very violent, and I couldn't handle...
LINDA DANO
