Background Quotes
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Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep liberal arts background. So we'd go to lunch and people would talk about their favorite seventeenth-century poets, and I'd be thinking, 'Could I even name five poets? From any century?'
Joy Covey
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The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is about the choices these guys are faced with. In that way, I think this is a more personal story about their friendship, about the reaction that they have when they're essentially faced with death, to a certain degree.
Elijah Wood
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Forget about being a guitar player. There's plenty of guitar factories and shops - you can do that'. That was my career officer at school. My mom said 'Fuck them, do what you feel, don't be discouraged by it'. That was cool. We all came from a working class, very supportive background. Joe's mom helped him fold sleeves of the first EP.
Phil Collen
Def Leppard
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Whoever carried out this abuse must be caught and brought to justice, regardless of rank or background.
Jack Straw
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I found myself not jumping in (to assist) as often if someone did not have that (corrections) background.
Ron Blair
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.
Deborah Needleman
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Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.
Michael D. Barnes
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There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.
Michael D. Barnes
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I don't come to work as an actor. There are many directors who can direct without ever having acted and do a great job and connect with their actors and lead them to excellent performances without themselves having had an acting background.
Abdellatif Kechiche
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My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.
Ravi Shankar
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I can claim no background except perhaps the woods, running streams, hunting, fishing, camping, the sky...
Arthur Dove
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Inspiration, it is well recognized, rarely comes unless an individual has immersed himself in the subject. He must have a rich background of knowledge and experience in it.
Edmund Ware Sinnott
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There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.
Ruth Brown
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The technical stuff is easy to deal with, it's just supplemental to the plight - it's not a real thing, it's just background to what we're really trying to do.
Eyedea
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Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15.
Johnny Marr
Pretenders
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I like going back in time and writing historical fantasy. I use some real historical characters as a background to give depth to the fantasy. And I throw my fictional characters into the midst of this, and, so far, it has turned out interesting.
Judith Tarr
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I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.
Rickie Lee Jones
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When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.
Blixa Bargeld
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If you're a wildlife filmmaker and you're going out into the field to film animals, especially behavior, it helps to have a fundamental background on who these animals are, how they work and, you know, a bit about their behaviors.
Mike deGruy
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I believe their race and religious background shaped the way they were treated by the media…The willingness to blame them even though they were clearly victims was distressing.
Azadeh Moaveni
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When I was exposed to the history and the cultural background of why women whose husbands die, why they have to become ascetic or live a life that is completely deprived of emotional or social or cultural sustenance, I was really shocked.
Deepa Mehta
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The wonderful news is that when a person with my lack of art background can be successful, then anyone can. I'm not super talented and had no art training. Nothing, nada, zip. No workshops or classes.
Jack White
The White Stripes
