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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

My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart. — Yuri Milner

My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays. — Alan Alda

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background. — Chris Hayes

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background. — Travis Tritt

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

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen. — Anthony Hopkins

My martial arts background is Tae Kwon Do. — Will Yun Lee

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

I never want to hide my wrestling background. — Chris Jericho

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

My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college. — Amy Schumer

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

Dance is in my background. — Rutina Wesley

I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching. — Seamus Heaney

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly. — Larry David

His view of the world featured swift disasters set against a background of lurking doom, my cooking did nothing to contradict it. — Margaret Atwood

My family background has always been very supportive. They're going to be there for me no matter what. — Mark Sanchez

Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost. — Witold Gombrowicz

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

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town. — Emeril Lagasse

The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad. — Alan Arkin

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

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 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

Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing. — Joseph Stefano

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

Maybe it's just my improv and sketch background, but I'm a lot more comfortable in a group. I like sharing focus and populating an ensemble. — Jason Mantzoukas

I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own. — Cat Power

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side. — Gregory Corso

My background is in musical comedy. — Christopher Walken

It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible. — Andrew Breitbart

The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian. — Isabella Rossellini

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 had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible. — Peter Landesman

My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now. — John Prescott

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

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things. — Dave Davies

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions. — Gordon B. Hinckley

With my background, I came out of the theater. — Joe Morton

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture. — Danny Boyle

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 don't know much about my biological background. — Dan Stevens

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane. — Sally Ride

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

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life. — Jonathan Franzen

I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports. — Bradley James

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

My theatre background is probably more extensive then my film, and I have done a fair bit of television. — Henry Ian Cusick

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

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

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant. — W. E. B. Griffin

My background is in improv and writing. — Paul Scheer

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

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege. — Jon Bon Jovi

Anyone can look through my sketchbooks as long as they don't have a background in psychiatric medicine. — Chris Riddell

I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life. — John Oliver

It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background. — Pekka Vasala

My background sets me apart. I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child. — Neon Hitch

My background is Scottish. — Melissa George

With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally. — Alexander Chee

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

My undergraduate degree is in business, so I'm trying to get a bit of a background before I go in. — Shannon Miller

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 vaguely remember my schooldays. They were what was going on in the background while I was trying to listen to the Beatles. — Douglas Adams

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college. — Dave Eggers

I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics. — James Heckman

My background was in performing originally. — Cy Coleman

I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business. — Nathan Fielder

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

I come from a mixed background - my mom's black, my dad's white - and I traveled around the world. — Tia Mowry

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league. — David Stern

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

You're really not right, are you? (Sin)
With my background and genetic makeup, buddy, you're lucky I'm as normal as I am. (Kat) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

There have always been men of all background and ethnicities on my father's job sites. And long before it was commonplace, you also saw women. — Ivanka Trump

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people. — Uma Thurman

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

With my background and genetic makeup,buddy, you're lucky I'm as normal as I am.
(Katra Agrotera) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

My background is more horror or thriller, and you can't get better than horror fans, as far as I'm concerned. — Janet Montgomery

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

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 got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law. — Shannon Miller

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

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed. — Mario Lopez

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background. — William Standish Knowles

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

Anybody with my background in the airline business who is not deaf is a fraud. — Maurice Flanagan

I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit even today. — Esha Gupta

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters. — William Standish Knowles

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity. — Yahoo Serious

My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil. — Emma Ishta

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

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education. — Nick Cave

Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity. — Sarah Manguso

Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist. — Cameron Russell