Best Backgrounds Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The Nashes pushed Johnny as hard socially as they did academically. At first, it was Boy Scout camp and Sunday Bible classes; later on, lessons at the Floyd Ward dancing school and membership in the John Aldens Society, a youth organization devoted to improving the manners of its members.”

Kids Childhood Mental Health Backgrounds Biographies Upbringing Schools Classes

Book:A Beautiful Mind

Source: A Beautiful Mind

“I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can get it. For me personally, it's just kind of more instinctive. But I don't have kind of an acting background. I fell into it accidentally.”

People Thinking Writing Kind Character Stories Bigs Acting Backgrounds

Author:Rose McGowan

“How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.”

Humans Art Self Evil Answers Existence Art Is Claims Bounds Backgrounds Secular Human Existence

Author:Yann Martel

“As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.”

Knows Needs Character Actors Backgrounds

Author:John Noble

“I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did Oliver here I played the Artful Dodger and I did The Sound of Music.”

Sound Theatre Backgrounds Dodgers Sound Of Music

Author:Ben Nicholas

“I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready.”

Kind Art Problem Bigs Kids Fighting Week Ready Backgrounds Martial Arts

Author:Jason Statham

“The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.”

Children Mother Plans Return Backgrounds Germany Crippled Fatherland

Author:Friedrich List

“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.”

Made Choices My Own Backgrounds Educated Supportive Family Life Family Background Supportive Family

Author:Cat Power

“My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.”

Firsts School Left Acting Skills Theater Towns Cameras Backgrounds Small Town Movie Theater

Author:Franka Potente

“Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.”

Play Passion Music Is Singing Theater Musical Backgrounds Piano Performing My Passion Musical Theater Music Is My Passion

Author:Janel Parrish

“As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.”

Children Different Remember Social Economic Backgrounds Meals Pot Neighbour

Author:Kamla Persad-Bissessar

“I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.”

Different Age Actors Race Diversity Backgrounds Landscape Different Ages

Author:Ryan Phillippe

“I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.”

Class New York Backgrounds Queens Working Class

Author:Amy Ryan

“My background is that I've spent a lot of time marketing entertainment. One of the old saws in package goods is you can take something that is popular and you can make it more popular. But if you take something less popular, you can't automatically market it into the same success as something that's already popular.”

Ifs Saws Marketing Entertainment Backgrounds Goods Packages

Author:Fred Seibert

“Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.”

Ifs Would Be Common Understood Backgrounds Italian Heritage Divorced Unthinkable Cultural Heritage Faust

Author:Gustav Stresemann

“I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.”

Thinking Used Angry Backgrounds Used To Be Temper Celtic Discreet Short Temper

Author:Julian Lennon

“I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.”

Turns Backgrounds Curious

Author:Jerry Spinelli

“I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation of a scene. I come from a theater background, so I'm used to a lot of repetition, and I'm used to really attacking something over and over and over again.”

Want Feels Real Used Focus Scene Theater Backgrounds Repetition Attacking Variation Perfectionist

Author:Michael Shannon

“I've known a lot of very religious people. My mother is very religious, but she was also very - is very private about it. She - when I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. So I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.”

People Mother Church Religious Known Growing Up Issues Growing Believer Backgrounds Flamboyant Personal Issues

Author:Michael Shannon

“Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.”

Ifs Two Matter Whole Hours Lines Half No Matter What Backgrounds Half Hours

Author:Aaron Tveit

“But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.”

People Wells Parent Backgrounds Traditional Neat

Author:Uma Thurman

“As the nation watches, Democrats and Republicans should reflect the interspersed character of America itself. Perhaps, by sitting with each other for one night, we will begin to rekindle that common spark that brought us here from 50 different states and widely diverging backgrounds to serve the public good.”

Should Different States Character America Night Nations Common Watches Republican Sitting Democrat Backgrounds Sparks One Night Public Good

Author:Mark Udall

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

Ifs Poor Harder Who You Are Backgrounds Poor Background

Author:Carol Vorderman

“Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.”

Thinking Writing Wells Backgrounds

Author:Jack Vance

“Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.”

People Knows Way Sometimes Culture Levels Type Deeper Backgrounds Snobbery

Author:Irvine Welsh

“That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.”

People Needs Moments Happens Computer Notes Backgrounds Mice All The Best Best Moments

Author:Jack White

“Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.”

World Writing Made Character Easier Backgrounds Hardest Limitation

Author:Walter Jon Williams

“When a reporter files a piece about Republican that slams Republican or law enforcement or hypes up climate change, there's no attempt to expose their bias, to look at their background. And then when you find out later that they usually have a bias.”

Looks Law Pieces Republican Climate Climate Change Backgrounds Bias Reporters Law Enforcement Enforcement Files Hype Slam

Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“See beauty in those unexpected places. (she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.) See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience. (she steered clear of the traffic jam and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.) She embraces the undeclared possibility in what seems like just another ordinary day. (her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)”

“There are so many stars shining in the sky, so many beautiful things winking at you, but when Venus comes out, all the others are waned, they are pushed to the background.”

Beautiful Science Stars Sky Shining Backgrounds Beautiful Things Brightness Venus Winking

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.”

Whole Theater Musical Whole Life Backgrounds Musical Theater

Author:Zachary Levi

“Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.”

Knows Sports Survival Backgrounds Objectives Awful Awful Days

Author:David Millar

“I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.”

Knows Has Beens Running Given Path Trouble Grew Grew Up Humble Missions Backgrounds Feds Midnight Stamps Right Path Many Friends Destitute Food Stamps

Author:Debi Mazar

“My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.”

Parent Class Middle Position Backgrounds Combination Odd Middle Class Privileged Working Class Upbringing

Author:Denise Mina

“I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.”

People Felt Feminism University Backgrounds Traditional Privileged Phds

Author:Denise Mina

“My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.”

Men Whole Character Animal Acting Backgrounds Fats Suits Costumes Diagrams Overlapping

Author:Allison Williams

“I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.”

People Way Kind Age Certain Actors Bits Findings Backgrounds Like Me Posh

Author:Kaya Scodelario

“The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Scott O'Dell established this award to encourage other writers--particularly new authors--to focus on historical fiction. He hoped in this way to increase the interest of young readers in the historical background that has helped to shape their country and their world.”

World Way Years Children Book Country Young Interest Fiction Focus Reader Shapes Adults Increase Historical Young Adult Backgrounds Awards Historical Fiction Annuals Dell Previous Years

Author:Scott O'Dell

“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before. Creation brings satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take organized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty.”

Humans Soul Matter Hands Desire Wish Ability Talent Creation Satisfaction Backgrounds Fulfillment Organized Yearning Inherent Human Soul Mold

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Coming from a technology background, I mostly worked behind the scenes or let the men take the lead. I had to learn to assert myself, communicate and be heard. I made sure that once I had my voice, I spoke for those who didn't - especially women.”

Men Made Voice Behinds Technology Heard He Man Scene Communicate Backgrounds Spokes Behind The Scenes

Author:Regina Agyare

“You may be Catholic or Protestant or Buddhist or Baptist or Muslim or Mormon or Jewish or Jain, or you have no religion at all. I'm not interested in your religious background. Because God did not create the universe for us to have religion. He came for us to have a relationship with him.”

May Universe Religious Catholic Backgrounds Buddhist Not Interested Protestants Baptists

Author:Rick Warren

“A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.”

Persons Shows Shadow Bigger Photograph Backgrounds Instant

Author:Tomas Transtromer

“Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors”

Progress Backgrounds Factors Colour Endowment

Author:Michael Bassey

“What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.”

Media Materials Backgrounds Mainstream Mainstream Media

Author:Jimmy Wales

“The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.”

Actors Voice Creative Performances Backgrounds Fearless Competent Live Performance

Author:Rob Paulsen

“American field players would really help themselves if they were exposed to a steady stream of box experience. Box lacrosse is an extremely valuable background for a young player, we need to incorporate more of the indoor skills in to the field game. It is almost a requirement to have a top player with indoor experience on your roster right now.”

Ifs Needs Helping Young Games Player Fields Right Now Skills Boxes Valuable Backgrounds Streams Exposed Steady Requirements Lacrosse Rosters

Author:Dom Starsia

“To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.”

Want Trying Successful Achieve Ego What You Want Backgrounds Being Successful Diplomatic

Author:Ken Adam

“Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.”

Company Successful Economics University Backgrounds Administration Enterprise Bin Laden

Author:Peter Bergen

“My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.”

Different Athlete Backgrounds Fighter Loser Biggest Loser

Author:Cara Castronuova

“My background was in performing originally.”

Backgrounds Performing

Author:Cy Coleman

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