“Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas.” IfsWritingI CanWaitingAreasBackgroundsRitualAirports Author:Neil Gaiman
“I've obviously come from a health background. I was a doctor before I became a pollie and one of the things I'd like to do is to really build on the world-class health system we've got. I'm passionate about climate change because it's also a health issue. Things like extreme weather impact on people's health, the ability of our hospitals to cope, the impact on mental health, on farmers in regional areas - they're all serious health concerns.” PeopleWorldAbilityClassIssuesSeriousAreasConcernDoctorsImpactMental HealthClimateClimate ChangePassionateExtremesBackgroundsWeatherHospitalsFarmersWorld ClassHealth IssuesHealth SystemExtreme Weather Author:Richard Di Natale
“Whenever you try to work through the things that we're trying to work through, that we're addressing, it ends up looking negative. Our goal is nonjudgment, nonfiltered acceptance of everything. So much of our background collectively, especially in the United States, is denying and suppressing and disowning a lot of negativity and the darker areas. You can become swallowed up in it. It's cancerous. The goal should be to define acceptance for everything. To try and consider every aspect. To try to look into the shadows, as well as the light.” ShouldTryingWellsLooksEndsStatesLightGoalUnitedUnited StatesAcceptanceShadowAreasNegativeAspectBackgroundsNegativitySuppressingDisowning Author:Maynard James Keenan
“I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to a form for the surreal. I have been called a preacher - but, in reality, I'm more generally philosophical. I have never made an abstracted photograph without content. An educated background in Zen influences all of my photographs. It has been said that my work resembles, more closely than any photographer, Le Douanier Rousseau - working in a fairly isolated area and feeding mostly on myself - I feel that I am a primitive photographer.” FeelsHas BeensMadeSaidDifferentRealityFormGroupsInfluenceAreasPhilosophicalPhotographerPhotographBackgroundsEducatedMannersIsolatedPreacherPrimitiveFeedingSurreal Author:Ralph Eugene Meatyard
“You had to give, uh, a lot of consideration to the fact that, uh, the artist had to come back into the mike area and start singing, especially the background singers, you know. And you had to make sure they had a couple of bars of music in order to catch their breath. And uh, in many cases a lot of choreographers didn't give that, uh, the proper thought.” KnowsGivingFactsArtistOrderCasesCoupleSingingAreasBreathsSingersBarsBackgroundsConsiderationMikeChoreographers Author:Cholly Atkins
“Music is very transporting. I'll hear a song for the first time and I rarely listen to the lyrics. I picture that song playing as a soundtrack to a movie, or even just in the background of someone's life. This all sounds weird, but I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.” FirstsSongSoundImaginationBrainMusic IsFirst TimeAreasActiveBackgroundsSoundtracks Author:Josh McDermitt
“In fact, in the history of a lot of cultures there is a theater. For example, there are the theaters in Java, [Indonesia] and of that area where they use puppets and they have backgrounds and shadows.” FactsUseCultureExampleShadowAreasTheaterBackgroundsIndonesiaPuppetsJava Author:Michelle Stuart