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?'
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For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity.
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My background is in improv and writing.
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I come from an improvisational background so I'm used to playing. I'm used to not knowing what exactly is going to come out.
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I came from a background of directing behind-the-scenes documentaries.
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Dick Clark had another show called, Where The Action Is. They had bands playing on the beach with water in the background. We were on that show three or four times. Paul Revere & The Raiders were the house band for the TV show. We got to know them pretty good too.
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I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.
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I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isnt always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.
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Like it or not the American people support the term 'background check,' they support the concept of it even though they know it won't work to keep guns out of the hands of criminals they figure 'well if criminals aren't supposed to have guns what's the big deal about a background check.
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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.
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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.
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But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!
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Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.
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Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.
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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.
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My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance.
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We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone.
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I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit even today.
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I had always seen myself doing theatre, as I don't come from an acting background, so that was my first way into acting, I suppose.
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I'm a great audience myself. I tried to keep in the background while others were on, but sometimes I'd just get hysterical.
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People say to me that I'm a role model in technology, but it makes me laugh, because I'm not a technologist, I'm a journalist - that's my background.
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It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background.
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Given Sen. Mitchell's integrity, given his background, he was absolutely considered to be the perfect choice for this job.
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Obama doesn't run around wearing a Carrie Bradshaw-esque nameplate necklace that says 'Socialist.' But his policies, actions, words, background and associations speak louder than any ID necklace ever could.
