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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. — Sue Gardner

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

But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the background for romance, and, to the true romantic, background was everything, or almost everything. — Oscar Wilde

I'm of Arab background. — Helen Thomas

And there we were, in the background of it all, holding on to one another. The Perfectionist, the Sweetheart, the Diva ... and me. — Kiera Cass

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

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

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background. — Victor Hugo

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

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants. — Billy Corgan

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 know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star. — Uday Kiran

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

Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer. — John Amos

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

I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance. — Jon Favreau

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

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

I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English. — Paul Walker

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

You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes. — Tom Wolfe

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. — Annie Lennox

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

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed. — Rand Paul

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. — Lynn Abbey

I entered this career having no background or connection to acting. — Demi Moore

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

What strikes me every single time is that the aspirations of Indians are unique and unparalleled. They're very demanding, regardless of background. — Sundar Pichai

There's probably been very few people in comedy that have a diversified background as I do. — Ron Shock

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

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 athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking. — Jon Bernthal

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

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

Trust to a Mercant is a complicated thing. It usually requires years of acquaintance, several background checks, and a probationary period. — Nalini Singh

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

Don't let your background or commitment to your own tradition make you fearful of joining in the adventure the Holy Spirit prepares for you. — Wesley Hill

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

A man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent. — David Gemmell

I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground. — Marvin L. Cohen

My brothers and I were raised by our parents to respect everyone regardless of background or race. — Alan Wilson

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background. — Coco Lee

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

There was an electric buzzing sound that was constantly on, acting as background music like a million cicadas in the forest. A constant white noise. — Missy Lyons

Well, she wasn't strong enough to avoid being the background of my art. Just the background. Her words just my canvas. — Janet Fitch

I understand that I may make mistakes with characters who don't share my own background, but I commit to doing my best. — Kelley Armstrong