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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

I have so much respect for people who do blue-collar work because I come from that background myself. — Cynthia Kadohata

Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring. — Patricia Polacco

When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid. — Sonia Sotomayor

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

I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have. — Howard Schultz

Believe me I do understand and I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for any less for a child from a poor background than a rich one. — David Cameron

From my background in travel at HotWire and Expedia, the metrics that TaskRabbit is seeing are more than double at what I saw at both those companies. — Leah Busque

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. — David Chalmers

A historian who works for a bank: That's not the most likely background for someone who capers around the cosmos having adventures, is it? — Charles Stross

I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it. — Stefan Edberg

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

No disaster can stay shiny and new forever. No worry has ever been invented that the mind cannot bully down into mere background noise. — Jamie Mason

Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II is an album that readily serves as background music to its own telling. — Marc Weidenbaum

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

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater. — Zachary Levi

A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway. — Italo Calvino

Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later. — Steven Pressfield

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten. — Milan Kundera

It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background. — Hilary Swank

My background wasn't one blessed with all the luxuries in life. Nothing is forever and I realize that. — Junior Seau

I did a lot of short films online, so I come from that background where a lot of people see your stuff. — Ben Schwartz

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

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

I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur. — Matt McGorry

My background is putting in large systems that change lives ... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency. — Nandan Nilekani

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

I believe that conservative solutions can help families of every race, every economic background, and every town in Oklahoma. — James Lankford

The trouble with life is that, unlike movies, it doesn't have background music. We never know how we're supposed to feel. — Lewis Gardner

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that. — Sean Connery

As long as each song makes somebody feel something, I think that's the point of it all. I don't want it to just be background music, you know? — Alessia Cara

The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense. — Negash Ali

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background. — T.D. Jakes

I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema. — Cary Fukunaga

Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart. — Pope Benedict XVI

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

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently. — Richelle E. Goodrich

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music. — Annie Proulx

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor. — Casey Kasem

the birds in the background was all that could be heard. Everyone just — Mark Kale

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do. — Maynard James Keenan

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go. — Nita Ambani

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background. — Walter Gilbert

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop. — Kid Rock

What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background. — Gavin Hood

What I discovered was that just by eating normally, we all have background levels of contaminants. — Nell Newman

I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background. — Richard Dawkins

I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest. — Helen Thomas

A good game impresses you with what you're doing. I think that's a fundamental difference that I as a game designer need to recede in the background. — Sid Meier

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background. — Bobby Vinton

I come from a background where I like collaboration and improv. I think that it is important. — Darren Boyd

The normal background-noise type of guilt that comes from just being alive this far into the twentieth century, — Douglas Adams

I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do. — Valorie Curry

I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine. — Yvonne Strahovski

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I. — Emma Watson

You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in. — Merry Clayton

There had to be the dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background its flashing glory. — Betty Smith

I don't think of my music as something that works well in the background. And because a lot of it isn't in 4/4, people might not like to dance to it. — Max Tundra

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

I come from a background that stresses education more than anything. — Michael Masser

I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background. — Jodie Foster

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory. — Neil Diamond

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

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

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 came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could. — Jodie Sweetin

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

You started to feel that if he was around, then everyone else, even the landscape, was just background. — Terry Pratchett

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

The Strict Father model takes as background the view that life is difficult and that the world is fundamentally dangerous. — George Lakoff

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

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

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 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 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 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

Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose. — Arianna Huffington

I've always said that theater was where I began, so everything I do now has a bit of my theater background in it. It was my training. — Luke Evans

I was reluctant to start the company that would become Lytro, primarily due to my academic background. — Ren Ng

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. — Dorothy Allison

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background. — B.F. Skinner

It was at that exact moment that I saw Peter walking down the hall toward me. He looked so good. He deserved his own background music. — Jenny Han

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission. — Sally Ride

I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences. — Sonia Sotomayor

I can't stand recipes that don't have background. — Yotam Ottolenghi

People are never who you think they are, that it was necessary to get a complete background check on a person before you made any promises. — Jodi Picoult

I love folk; that's a big part of my background. — Amy Lee

I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both those obligations. — Emma Donoghue

My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background. — Tommy Wiseau

I come from a martial arts background so kicking and punching and using your hands and your feet is more of the art that I was taught. — Katheryn Winnick

I hire a lot of waiters, waitresses. Someone who's successful has a background that's not predictable. — Mickey Drexler

I used to love to call L.A. when I lived in New York ... Is that the Big One I hear in the background? Bye you lizard scum! Bye! — Bill Hicks

One of Boomer's strong points is that he has a great background in just about everything. — Herbert Jefferson Jr.

I'm ashamed to say that I'm from a very privileged background. — David Lagercrantz

People forget how sensational the things are that they do. They don't see it on themselves. It blends into the background of their daily life. — Saul Bellow

When I joined the band I was coming largely from an improvising background, and the idea of a fluid rhythm that was really coherent attracted me. — John Dieterich