Best 168 quotes in «backgrounds quotes» category

Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord.

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

I always feel very connected to Canada. My reference for everything is my Canadian background, my life in Canada. Particularly on this issue of refugee immigration: I couldn't be prouder of Canada.

Hitler was highly secretive - not least about his personal life, his background, and his family.

Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.

I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.

I came out of a family background that involved itself with people.

I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.

I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

I came up from a difficult background.

I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.

I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.

I come from a theater family and a theater background, and I come from a philosophy that you respect the space you occupy when you work and you put everything that you have into something.

I come from a background of independent films.

I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.

I come from a traditional theater background.

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.

I come from rather an international, or in other words, a cosmopolitan background.

I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest.

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.

I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.

I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.

I do consider myself a very spiritual being. I fear being seen as political in any context because it's so limiting, but I do feel Godflesh is a protest music of sorts. That was the background that I came from.

I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.

I don't come from a privileged background.

I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces, I find them strong and contemporary.

I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

If you eat meat, something like that is going on in the background for you too.

If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber

If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object.

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

I had a very colorless background, and when I left Ohio and moved to England, nobody knew who I was and I had a real freedom. I could be free to experiment and experience things and I liked that a lot.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.