Best 168 quotes in «backgrounds quotes» category

It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.

It was really wonderful playing with Aretha [ Franklin]. I knew that she knew what she was doing, so all I had to do was sit in the background and vamp a little bit.

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.

I've sung background for a couple of bands.

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.

I want to see an open and tolerant society here in the United Kingdom, I want to see a country that works for everyone whatever their background.

I wasn't a great background singer.

I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

I was asked to sing with Mavis Staples on a gospel compilation called 'Oh Happy Day.' And, you know, other than being totally intimidated at the prospect of singing with Mavis, I was honored. I don't really have much of a background in gospel music.

Jazz is not background music.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

Most of the time I was in the background. I never played [the Virgin] Mary. I was always kind of the third angel.

My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.

My background is in musical comedy.

My background is that I've spent a lot of time marketing entertainment. One of the old saws in package goods is you can take something that is popular and you can make it more popular. But if you take something less popular, you can't automatically market it into the same success as something that's already popular.

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

My background is in health care.

My background was in performing originally.

My background is Scottish.

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing

My family background was deeply Christian.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing.

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.

Odd that I couldn’t catch any of your dream,” Bones went on. “Normally your dreams are like background music to me.

One of Boomer's strong points is that he has a great background in just about everything.

O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?

She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.

There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships

The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.

The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.

There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background.

The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.