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“I became a snarling beast, clawing and biting, barely aware of anything but pain.”

Pain Beast Holly Black The Stolen Heir Suren Wren Biting Snarling Clawing

Source: The Stolen Heir

“I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.”

Way Children Country Dream Young Poor Class Military Baseball Soldier Vocation Provinces

Author:Hugo Chavez

“I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.”

Specialists One Liner Comedic

Author:Lauren Hutton

“I became a stand-up comedienne because I had a sit-down husband.”

Husband

Author:Phyllis Diller

“I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about singing, but I have been never practicing it.”

Knows Should Mean Has Beens Age Five Player Singing Should Have

Author:Trilok Gurtu

“I became a teenager when I discovered how to give myself that feeling of wholeness, even if it lasted only for a moment even if it got me into huge trouble, it was the closest i could come to... to.. i don't remember.”

Growing Up Coping Mechanism

Author:Lynda Barry

Source: One Hundred Demons

“I became a terrible drunk or alcoholic - or a good one depending on your point of view.”

Views Terrible Point Of View Drunk Alcoholics

Author:Craig Ferguson

“I became a thief, Manon. I squatted in dirty theaters and stole food from innocent bakers. I did bad things to good people. I killed. I lied and cheated and smoked and drank and even slept with a prostitute once. So it amounts to the same thing. I’ll burn in hell either way.”

Hell Thief

Author:Shelby Mahurin

Source: Serpent & Dove

“I became a total yes. We don't even have names anymore.”

Love Names Sex

Author:Vanna Bonta

“I became a vegan because I'm better than you”

Vegan Better Than You

Author:Thom Yorke

“I became a vegetarian 55 years ago, and I think it's one of the more important behavioral changes I ever took. The more I see of the beef industry and so on, I believe that to be true.”

Thinking Years Believe Important I Believe Industry Years Ago Being True Vegetarian Beef Behavioral Change

Author:John Elkington

“I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.”

Animal Torture Vegetarian Factories Farming Factory Farming Slaughterhouses Inhumane

Author:Kevin Nealon

“I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.”

“I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.”

Ideas Animal Lovers Eating Research Teenager Uncomfortable Meat Vegetarian Vegetarianism Animal Love Eating Meat Animal Lover

Author:Laura Mennell

“I became a vegetarian in 1958 and it was very difficult in those days to really maintain that because there weren't many options... alternatives. But, now, it's a growing trend because... the economics are there. See, there's simply enough people demanding it that it's profitable to supply vegetarians with those products.”

People Enough Difficult Growing Products Economics Alternatives Vegetarian Trends Profitable

Author:Dennis Weaver

“I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.”

My Own Decision Animal Compassion Healthy Concerned I Realized Diets Vegetarian Vegan Consumption Vegetarianism Animal Compassion Vegan Diet

Author:Davey Havok

“I became a vegetarian out of concern for animals, but I wasn't a vegetarian long before I realized there's something to that. I don't think I would have worked for the past five years probably were it not for my vegetarian diet.”

Thinking Years Long Past Animal Five Concern I Realized Diets Five Years Vegetarian Vegetarian Diet

Author:Bob Barker

“I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.”

Persons Angry Dues Alcoholism Angry Person

Author:Christopher Atkins

“I became a villain for doing the right thing.”

Right Thing Villain Doing The Right Thing

Author:Tony Hayward

“I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with.”

Thinking Lying Pleasure Philosopher Deception Novelists Deceit Get Away Moralist Virtuoso

Author:Christopher Hampton

“I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.”

Knowing Becoming Engineers Queues

Author:Billy Connolly

“I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.”

Writing Years Humans Important Ideas Race Human Race Unreal Unattractive

Author:William Saroyan

Source: I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure

“I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers are unseen. It helps me write.”

Writing Children Helping Mother Help Me

Author:Samantha Hunt

“I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.”

Firsts Stories Father Storyteller

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.”

Believe Book I Believe I Believe In

Author:Deb Caletti

“I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.”

Book Research Love To Read

Author:Beth Richardson Gutcheon

“I became a writer in spite of my environments.”

Environment Spite

Author:Robert E. Howard

Source: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

“I became a writer not because my father was one - my father made false teeth for a living. I became a writer because the Irish nuns who educated me taught me something about bravery with their willingness to give so much to me.”

Giving Made Father Taught Bravery Teeth Educated Willingness Nun

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“I became a writer so that the voices inside my head would become an acceptable occurrence.”

Writing Crazy Writers Voices Voices Inside Your Head

Author:Janae Mitchell

“I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world of superheroes starting in third grade with my classmate, Wai-Kwan Wong. In a classroom of forty kids, let's just say there was a lot of undirected time. But this was good because I was a dreamy boy.”

World Firsts Book Kids Boys Particular Thirds Starting Drawing Obsession Comic Grades Forty Classroom Comic Book Superhero My Boys Dreamy Classmates Third Grade Marvel Comics

Author:Adam Ross

“I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.”

Writing Died Tales

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox.”

Years Fans Red Yankees

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I became acquainted very early with the widespread presence of an unfortunate syndrome among some Black male activists--namely to confuse their political activity with an assertion of their maleness.”

Autobiography Black Liberation

Author:Angela Davis

“I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.”

Facts Lasts Suffering Lost Attitude Behavior Witness Positive Attitude Camps Bores Martyr Search For Meaning Mans Search For Meaning Suffering And Death

Author:Viktor E. Frankl

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“I became addicted to the floating nature of nothingness, to the charm of its carefree pauses and to waiting. I magnified waiting. I wrote about waiting. I basked in its warm nook and completely let go of who I am or what I really wanted.”

Waiting

Author:Ibraheem Hamdi

Source: The Cashmere Scarf

“I became addicted to the movie-going experience in the 1970s, when I attended multiple screenings of films such as 'Chinatown', 'Jaws', 'Star Wars' and the original 'Rocky'.”

War Film Stars Originals Multiple Screening Chinatown

Author:Richard Roeper

“I became alcoholic at around age of 13 or 14. I was full-blown. Every day we would hide the alcohol, stealing from stores or stealing it from our parents and hiding out in dirt fields and drinking it before school and after school.”

Age School Parent Fields Drinking Alcohol Stores Stealing Hiding Dirt Alcoholics After School Hiding Out

Author:Reginald Arvizu

“I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.”

Bigs Wanted Film Stars Goal Religious Saws Media Making Money Upbringing

Author:Cat Stevens

“I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.”

Trying House Parent Air Possibility Scary Reactions Fascinated Frightening Unbearable Explosions Poisoning

Author:Richard Ernst

“I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of a little biologist when I was younger. I watched documentaries on rainforest pollution and the loss of species and habitats for animals around the world. It affected me in a very hardcore, emotional way when I was younger. So, later in life I wanted to continue that path more and investigate and learn more about ecological issues.”

“I became an actor because I couldn't not.”

Actors

Author:Debra Winger

“I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.”

Knows Actors

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I became an actor because I love solving problems. I'm a big crossword puzzle person. I love doing research. One of the reasons I became Jewish is because I love text study.”

Persons Reason Problem Bigs Actors Study Research Problem Solving Puzzles Crosswords

Author:Anthony Heald

“I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.”

Actors Felt Acting Fit

Author:Gillian Anderson

“I became an actor by accident, not by design.”

Actors Design Accidents

Author:James Lipton

“I became an actor by accident.”

Actors Accidents

Author:Christopher Walken

“I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.”

World Actors Comedy Musical Accidents Teenager

Author:Christopher Walken

“I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.”

Way Art Play School Actors Study Fields Youth Theater London Theatre Dramatic Britain Academy Good Way Great Britain School Plays Youth Theatre

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“I became an actor kind of by accident. I was in musical theater and I got a job as an actor in a play and kept going. But I never set out to be an actor; it happened over time.”

Kind Play Jobs Actors Happened Theater Musical Accidents Musical Theater

Author:Christopher Walken

“I became an actor so I can show you characters and never have to show you me.”

I Can Character Shows Actors

Author:Margot Robbie

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