1,572 Quotes About Became

My dad wanted me to be a professional person, which I was - I was a civil engineer. I graduated from civil engineering at USC in California. I became an engineer, and I helped design the roads for the L.A. County Roads Department. And I did that for about one and a half years in a sense to please my parents - to be a 'respectable' person.

One thing that changed when I moved upstate was that I became interested in different materials. I started making the stone benches because I was seeing rocks.

I think from what he used to tell us, he always wanted to be on the police force. We saw each other quite often (when Hyder was young), and it was kind of a strange happenstance that I ended up kind of being his employer when I became a trustee.

I looked at the display and I thought this display of rocks in dishes was the epitome of ridiculous. Then I had an epiphany and instantly realized the stone looked like a miniature mountain, and I became just hooked.

One day this car pulls up with these funny things on top. It was Jake Burton. We became the first ones in Colorado to sell a Burton snowboard.

We became very complacent that technology was going to go up for ever,

My life in Hollywood surrounded by celebrities became a point of view for me - sports, fashion, music, film, arts, and politics as a media play.

For me in my twenties, working in Hollywood was confusing in that the differences between what was fiction and what was nonfiction seemed to blur in my mind. Everything became a visual memory for me. I carried my Leica camera, giving opportunity to take pictures from my view.

Because I went to Chouinard, which then became CalArts, I became a multi-discipline artist - it wasn't just about painting, it was about media and performance.