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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
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 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 grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.
— Emeril Lagasse
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
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
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
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 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
My theatre background is probably more extensive then my film, and I have done a fair bit of television.
— Henry Ian Cusick
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
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
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
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 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
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 got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.
— Shannon Miller
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
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
