#became

The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers. ↗

— John Britton

#after #associate #became #birth #early

You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#feel #happened #human #human race #i

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#became #i #myself

If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses. ↗

— Julian Sands

#big #distracting #finding #glasses #go

The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#back #became #because #been #body

The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times. ↗

— Matthew Bourne

#because #completely #go #happened #i

My version of "Georgia" became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching. ↗

— Ray Charles

#big #big thing #declaring #georgia #here

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#became #began #both #carry #cold

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process. ↗

— Anita Desai

#family #got #i #more #much

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had. ↗

— Gail Devers

#any #athlete #became #because #brother