I Quotes
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“I became more and more interested in the mechanics of creativity.”
Source: And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared: TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving
“I became more confident within myself and matured as a person and become a little bit more opinionated - maybe the lads might say a little bit too opinionated for their liking but that is just a natural progression for a player.”
“I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.”
“I became more curious about the story behind the story [in the House of Cards]. So what was really going on behind the headline? And it's a little bit sad that that show, it doesn't seem so much like entertainment the way it did back when we started doing it.”
“I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art context and I started to do installations, that was when writing of mine almost returned to fiction. Earlier I felt like I didn't have anything to write about, I could only concentrate on the page, I could only concentrate on words.”
“I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.”
“I became my own version of a Devourer, finding it easy to give pain and delight so the new ones could achieve the purity I’d found.”
Source: Prey
“I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.”
“I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.”
“I became obsessed with the true stuff, and that led to shaping 'The Way Back' screenplay somewhat toward a minimalist style, to avoid free-hanging moments, and to hold the music back, so it would never lead you to an emotion, and to try to make the emotions as real as I could.”
“I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words "Biblical criticism" again. And, of course, afterward, I studied it more closely.”
“I became one of the stately homos of England.”
“I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.”
“I became part of a little study group in community college and started caring about strangers. It gave me insight into what an asshole I was. I saw that I had only lived half of a life.”
“I became Patti's [Smith] messenger, basically, and the film is my view of how I learned about Patti.”
“I became popular very young. I viewed myself as just a young actor trying to figure out how to do well, and, you know, making mistakes and learning and growing.”
“I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit.”
“I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.”
Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America
“I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.”
“I became really absorbed but again I was at that point - and I still remain today - an outsider who has no interest in becoming an insider, let alone in what that insider perspective on [Buckminster Fuller] has come to be and come to represent.”
“I became really aware that when you're making a movie, you're making it three times. You're making it when you're writing it. You're making it when you're shooting it. And then you're remaking it again when you're editing it.”
“I became really creative around the time I started understanding that people could be creative with music and that that was allowed. I stated taking piano lessons at age five, but I never did what my piano teacher told me to do. I would just do whatever I wanted.”
“I became really interested in the community health care movement and community health centers, which Boston was sort of a leading center for.”
“I became religious and at 14 went to a boarding school 500 miles from home to begin theological studies. By the time I started university, politics had replaced religion in the economy of my enthusiasms but I had no idea what to study. My boarding school emphasized languages which I was bad at, and deemphasized math and science which I was good at.”
“I became resentful, because we never spoke about it, and resentment is the silence around an unresolved thing.”
Source: Audrey's Gone AWOL
“I became simply a pair of eyes, staring through my mask at Char. I needed no ears because I was too far off to hear his voice, no words because I was too distant for speech, and no thoughts - those I saved for later. He bent his head. I loved the hairs on the nape of his neck. He moved his lips. I admired their changing shape. He clasped his hand. I blessed his fingers. Once, the power of my gaze drew his eyes.”
“I became slightly disillusioned, but in a really good way that enabled me to realize that the music was the most important thing, and that the rest of it is total bullshit.”
“I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.”
“I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this”
“I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie about what had happened. To my addled brain, this was plausible. Then I came to my senses and woke Eric up and told him that either he had to retreat or I'd throw him off. We went down and I never climbed again for a quarter of a century.”
“I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.”
“I became something I had no name for in solitude and only later discovered the word for what I was and realized there were others like me.”
Source: Missed Her (Large Print 16pt)
“I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the '80s.”
“I became sort of an aficionado on the Valentino pajamas, because I like those so much.”
“I became stereotyped.”
“I became successful and within five years conquered the world and had the most amazing run. I had so much momentum and adrenaline going, but then it ends and you have to find what level you're going to be on, how enthusiastic you're going to be.”
“I became super claustrophobic with Hollywood. I don't like Hollywood. I don't like what it represents. I think that Hollywood is great if you're an actor, actress, established. But for reality people or what people perceive as reality, it's tough. People are constantly discrediting everything you put on camera.”
“I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew.”
“I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.”
“I became the first ever Euro-continental champion in WWF history. Well, besides D-Lo Brown, but he doesn't count.”
“I became the girl who made people uncomfortable just by asking them to be honest.”
Source: Where The Cicada Sleeps: A Diary-Style Portrait of Girlhood, Betrayal, and the Quiet Violence of Being Misunderstood
“I became the head of the household. I went to school in the morning and sold wines all afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening.”
Source: You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler
“I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.”
“I became the leader because of my father's leadership and I was considered as powerful as same as my own father.”
“I became the magnet for a lot of scary aggression. Cos it's scary Up North!”
“I became the messenger who had to be killed”
“I became the singer by default. I didn't know if I could do it. We tried other people, but couldn't find anyone we liked.”
“I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.”
Source: Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994
“I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.”
“I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it.”