All Quotes

Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

Becoming a grandmother has felt like being a mother.
‐‐ Jade Jagger

Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
‐‐ Cameron Russell

Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won't crumble around me.
‐‐ Shakira

Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
‐‐ Edie Brickell

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.
‐‐ Sarah Zettel

Becoming a mother doesn't always change every aspect of your personality.
‐‐ Anna Torv

Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
‐‐ Karisma Kapoor

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.
‐‐ Jessica Hagedorn

Becoming a mother has turned my world upside down, but in a really good way - it's the best.
‐‐ Katherine Kelly

Becoming a mother hasn't necessarily changed how I shoot, but it certainly has made me more sensitive, and it certainly makes it much harder for me to photograph dying children.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario

Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.
‐‐ Paula Patton

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.
‐‐ Debra Messing

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.
‐‐ Mariska Hargitay

Becoming a parent expands you as a human being. I am having the most wonderful time. You've married, but the addition of a child strengthens and deepens everything.
‐‐ Kyle MacLachlan

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.
‐‐ Laurence Fox

Becoming a parent has changed the risk calculus for me. But it might be age, too, and seeing a lot of friends die in the mountains. Will I take the same risks I took in my 20s? Probably not, but I will always push myself in the mountains.
‐‐ Jimmy Chin

Becoming a parent is always going to be a default setting. I truly believe there will always be more people who want to have children than who don't.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.
‐‐ Andy Garcia

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.
‐‐ Phyllis Schlafly

Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
‐‐ Edmund Hillary

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.
‐‐ Geri Halliwell

Becoming a vampire is forever. You don't get to change your mind about it later. For me, I think that's one of the big drawbacks with anything that's permanent. How do you know how you're going to feel in five years or 10 years? Even with a tattoo.
‐‐ Stephenie Meyer

Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
‐‐ Park Chan-wook

Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!
‐‐ Theophilus London

Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.
‐‐ Paul Auster

Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a book for adults.
‐‐ Deb Caletti

Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.
‐‐ Sandra Oh

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.
‐‐ Christoph Waltz

Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.
‐‐ Carol Alt

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.
‐‐ Lev Grossman

Becoming an economist was not a childhood dream of mine.
‐‐ Harry Markowitz

Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.
‐‐ Anne Taintor

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.
‐‐ Virat Kohli

Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
‐‐ Michael Diamond

Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.
‐‐ Carl Olson

Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.
‐‐ Macy Gray

Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try and avoid making eye contact with anyone. It was freaky, and it just happened overnight. I couldn't handle it.
‐‐ Alison Moyet

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.
‐‐ Carnie Wilson

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.
‐‐ Bruno Mars

Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
‐‐ Steve Earle

Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.
‐‐ Helena Blavatsky

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
‐‐ Bill Bradley

Becoming successful is a relentless pursuit. It's good that it's that way: When it does come, you learn to know how to appreciate it, and know how lucky you are to be doing something that you love so much.
‐‐ Frankie Valli

Becoming the first Canadian male to win a Major Championship, especially being the Masters, was a dream come true.
‐‐ Mike Weir

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
‐‐ Garry Trudeau