#became

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#better #each #everybody #much #other

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#ever #everything #famous #got #i

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays. ↗

— Blythe Danner

#became #first #high #high school #i

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#became #cultural #esteemed #figure #hooked

I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine. ↗

— Laurence Fishburne

#acting #around #became #came #cared

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#bit #completely #i #life #like

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#became #characteristic #dwelling #form #hall

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#last #much #put #records #way

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small. ↗

— William Langewiesche

#became #how #mastery #means #practical

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#about #adventure #always #america #american