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Because it is the light that helps cast the shadow, and it is the dark which provides the background to give light its vibrancy. Practitioners
— Gillian Nolan
My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
— Chris Hayes
I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.
— Carrie Ann Inaba
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
— Michael Caine
I'm of Arab background.
— Helen Thomas
My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.
— Nouriel Roubini
Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.
— Paul Goodman
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We have a man [Donald Trump] who judges people based on their performance regardless of your gender, race, your ethnic or religious background.
— Chris Christie
His view of the world featured swift disasters set against a background of lurking doom, my cooking did nothing to contradict it.
— Margaret Atwood
I've sung background for a couple of bands.
— Randy Jackson
Running footsteps sounded in the background, but it was only Daddy, so he ignored it.
— Thea Harrison
I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces. I find them strong and contemporary.
— Paul Emsley
Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be a benefit.
— Viggo Mortensen
I have a strong art-history background.
— Eli Roth
I came from a very poor background. I came from children's homes; I came from a violent family, and against all the odds, I succeeded.
— DeObia Oparei
The Eagles, let's face it, they were a pretty cool group, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie. I had this really eclectic background in music.
— Meredith Brooks
My hands were sticky with glue, and I hummed along to Sia, playing in the background.
— Heather Demetrios
I normally hate books that have anything to do with medicine, thanks to my own background in nursing - FYI, almost everybody gets it wrong.
— Shiloh Walker
My background is in musical comedy.
— Christopher Walken
I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.
— Tommy Wiseau
With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.
— Alexander Chee
I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.
— Bob Graham
A liberal education ... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
— Robert M. Hutchins
My theatre background is probably more extensive then my film, and I have done a fair bit of television.
— Henry Ian Cusick
No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.
— Gertrude Atherton
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.
— Stephen Cole Kleene
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
— Alfred North Whitehead
I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.
— John Oliver
I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.
— Jodie Sweetin
Place is not the background of archaeology - it's the point. As any archaeologist will tell you, context is everything.
— Marilyn Johnson
could hear Rico's ass laughing in the background like I was some nigga on Comedy Central telling jokes and shit
— Lucinda John
We rode in silence. Outkast's Spaghetti Junction played in the background as we hit I-85, southbound toward town. Jessica
— Mitty Walters
If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Every life - regardless of background or gender - has equal value.
— Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber
I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.
— Shannon Miller
At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.
— Dee Dee Warwick
I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
— Raf Simons
My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.
— Dave Davies
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
— Lynn Abbey
By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.
— Jeremy Grantham
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.
— Floyd Mayweather Jr.
I didn't really get any rigorous background in film history.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
Nature, it her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man
— John Morley
I'm not of a science background, I was never a comic book geek, and I was never a gamer.
— Niall Matter
Many of the people I've worked with over the years came from a sketch-comedy background or an improv background, and I've learned a lot from them.
— Megan Mullally
My background is in improv and writing.
— Paul Scheer
And in the background of Early's story was her voice. Her soul. Her sadness and longing. Because when it's raining, it's always Billie Holiday. p. 81
— Clare Vanderpool
A turtle swims in the background while this shark's face is distorted by the diver's camera lens.
— James Mayrose
For most people, most of the time, the media are little more than a background hum. . .
— Julianne Schultz
I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.
— Peter Landesman
I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don't need a strong political background in.
— George Lopez
I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
— Damian McGinty
My undergraduate degree is in business, so I'm trying to get a bit of a background before I go in.
— Shannon Miller
I have a taekwondo background, but I also try to invent new moves and make sure that when I step into the Octagon, I'm a different fighter.
— Anthony Pettis
There's probably been very few people in comedy that have a diversified background as I do.
— Ron Shock
I did a lot of background and research on 'End Of Watch,' and I definitely used certain skills that I learned.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I come from a background of independent films.
— Mia Wasikowska
In a noisy place I can't understand speech, because I cannot screen out the background noise.
— Temple Grandin
I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.
— Mickey Rourke
I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.
— Dexter Fletcher
My background was in performing originally.
— Cy Coleman
You started to feel that if he was around, then everyone else, even the landscape, was just background.
— Terry Pratchett
I was glad to have had some dance background because some of the dances are pretty wild.
— Piper Perabo
Of our jobs are bad jobs, but they're the kind held by people in the background. People who are getting by. People who don't play pool that well.
— Michael Marshall Smith
He who hears only a "Will to Truth" in the background, and nothing else, cannot certainly boast of the sharpest ears.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.
— Mary Barnett Gilson
My background is more horror or thriller, and you can't get better than horror fans, as far as I'm concerned.
— Janet Montgomery
We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.
— Peter Capaldi
My background is from India, and I always get asked, 'When are you going to do an Indian film, a musical or Bollywood film?'
— Asif Kapadia
My brothers and I were raised by our parents to respect everyone regardless of background or race.
— Alan Wilson
As for the subject matter in my painting ... it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.
— William Baziotes
Trust your instinct in areas you have some background because your instinct is informed and not blind. - L. R. W. Lee
— L.R.W. Lee
My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.
— William Standish Knowles
The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.
— Norwood Russell Hanson
