When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.
Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.
I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade.
When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.
Maybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open.
Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
There's not one part of me that wants to go crazy and do anything out of the ordinary, but it would be nice to do something and not have it spread all over the place. But that's the world we live in now, and you either have to accept it or figure it out - or become a villain, I guess.
Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.
Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
Once you become famous, you can't become unfamous. You can become a failure.
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.
We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.
In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.
Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality.
When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
As a child of God, your destiny, if you work hard enough and are faithful, is to become like Him. That means that there is nothing that is true that you cannot learn, because He knows all truth.
Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.
I am of the opinion that I am not a political writer, and, moreover, that as far as true literature is concerned, there actually are no political writers. I think that my writing is no more political than ancient Greek theatre. I would have become the writer I am in any political regime.
The world is changing, and the Internet is about to become the next broadcast network.
A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.
I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.
My accent's become a weird hybrid.
A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.
I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.
Sooner or later, you will see a China-based company that really has a global impact, and I think Baidu has a chance to become one of those companies. We should be able to compete on a global basis.
You don't have to be angry and become an ugly person.
December 25th has become guilt and obligation.
The sky is the limit as long as you keep the rooms practical, and I have become better at that since I had children. Function, form and organisation are all important.
I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.
The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.
I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.
Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.
