Once I became a total buffoon, it was so liberating.
Joaquin Phoenix
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe
Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea.
Virginia Postrel
In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor.
Steven Price
At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.
Prince
I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.
Richard Pryor
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Iqbal Quadir
In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
Questlove
Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch when I was terrified... →
David Rakoff
I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
Orville Redenbacher