If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six times less a man. You feel really dopey and useless and like a spectator. I did, anyway.
San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.
Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.
Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.
I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.
When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.
The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.
Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
If 'Obama-care' becomes fully implemented in 2014, it's going to bankrupt states.
If you throw money around like confetti, it just becomes shallow and meaningless.
Without a policy restricting immigration, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to fight against communalism and the rise of ways of life at odds with laicite - France's distinctive form of secularism - and other laws and values of the French Republic.
When fake news is repeated, it becomes difficult for the public to discern what's real.
By making a company successful, you can provide more employment, and, if you treat your staff well, then your business itself becomes a charity.
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
What I learned then was there is a certain power in a three piece band. The more people you put on that stage, the more diluted it becomes.
What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.
I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.
The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.
Science fiction writers aren't short of ideas. You can read a book, and it sets off a chain of thought processes, so it becomes a response to other people's books.
When you walk away from God, and you walk away from Christ, you're basically uprooting the very foundations of being. So I don't think there is an easy way to do that. Even for the guy who becomes an atheist out of it, it's messy. It ain't pretty.
I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.
Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.
Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.
I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.
Believe it or not, I like the 'Rumble.' It's extremely unpredictable and over-the-top. Everyone in the WWE universe looks forward to it. It becomes that one event each year where people center around.
When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.
When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
Every little job becomes a dream, and you don't recall it anymore, and maybe you might have a deja vu moment, but it's like something you dreamed earlier.
If achieving the Hong Kong dream becomes a vanishing hope, then our society will suffer. What would the Hong Kong dream be? It's no different from the American dream, whereby an everyday man on the street who works hard would be able to make good savings and use those savings as equity for their future small business.
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
