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“Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.”

Want Should Firsts Able Opportunity Ability Pay Struggle Students Huge Should Have University Debt Backgrounds Frightened Family Background Further Education

Author:Charles Kennedy

“I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.”

Ifs Thinking Knows May Persons Lines Environment Backgrounds Comedian Ingredients Family Background

Author:Bob Newhart

“When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.”

Ideas My Own Records Singers Backgrounds Drowning Foreground

Author:Brian Eno

“Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as on the question of civil rights-he functioned like most men, as a product of his background.”

Men Character America Growth Rights Middle Products Backgrounds Civil Rights Johnson Middle Aged Southerner Westerners

Author:Tom Wicker

“News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.”

Thinking Sometimes Problem Minutes Conflict News Shadow Accounts Deeper Backgrounds Reports

Author:Arthur Hays Sulzberger

“We will be able to achieve a just and prosperous society only when our schools ensure that everyone commands enough shared background knowledge to be able to communicate effectively with everyone else.”

Enough Able School Society Achieve Communicate Backgrounds Command Prosperous Background Knowledge

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.”

Thinking Writing Has Beens I Can Poverty Gone Backgrounds American Writer

Author:Alden Nowlan

“Background for Humans”

Humans Nature Backgrounds

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always.”

Writing Firsts Stories Lines Backgrounds Plot Serving Storyline Plot Lines

Author:James N. Frey

“There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore how the minds of their characters work, or to set aside the opportunity to provide necessary background exposition in a succinct fashion.”

Want Giving Writing Mind Character Stories Courses Opportunity Differences Fiction Fashion Giving Up Scripts Backgrounds Fiction Writers

Author:Les Standiford

“If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.”

Ifs Believe Race Gender Backgrounds Powerful Women

Author:Carly Fiorina

“Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.”

Wells Art Loses Dark Identity Civilization Backgrounds Contemporary Well Being

Author:Eugenio Montale

“In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.”

People Stills Character Able Past Film Moving Concern Core Backgrounds Diverse Stereotype Ethnic Background

Author:Forest Whitaker

“With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.”

Philosophy Meetings Backgrounds Theology Borders Ethical Ethical Questions

Author:Alan Lightman

“Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.”

Ifs Character Black Streets Television Backgrounds

Author:Stephen L. Carter

“I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.”

Acting Careers Connections Backgrounds

Author:Demi Moore

“At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.”

People Way Doe Art Age Form Culture Speak Ability Struggle Backgrounds Cinema Remarkable Popular Culture Ability To Speak

Author:David Puttnam

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

Writing Wells Class Creative College Backgrounds Journalism Creative Writing Sophomore

Author:Dave Eggers

“My background is in health care.”

Care Backgrounds Health Care

Author:Bobby Jindal

“I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.”

Growing Up Growing Backgrounds Strict Jamaicans Jamaican Music

Author:Grace Jones

“I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a jazz musician and play at a restaurant for cash. And I've done some background vocals for recording artists.”

Done Play Together Used Artist Fun New York Musician Jazz Backgrounds Restaurants Cash Vocal Jazz Music Get Together Jazz Musician Cabaret Just For Fun Juilliard

Author:Nicole Beharie

“The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.”

Paper Backgrounds Journalism Pens

Author:Rick Bragg

“I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.”

Ifs Thinking Character Age Certain Youth Proud Backgrounds

Author:Adam Brody

“All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.”

Play Song Appreciate Jazz Folks Pops Backgrounds Spontaneity Parameters Pop Song

Author:Andrew Bird

“I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.”

People Art Culture Backgrounds Art And Culture

Author:Danny Boyle

“I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page.”

Trying Feelings Song Culture Rooms Pages Singing Training Backgrounds Factors Unpredictable Ethos Schubert

Author:Kathleen Battle

“There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.”

Should Shows Able Internet Gun Newspapers Backgrounds Checks Ads Firearms Background Checks

Author:Michael D. Barnes

“Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.”

Knows Should Shows Waiting Know How Car Periods Gun Should Have Tests Backgrounds Checks Background Checks

Author:Michael D. Barnes

“First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.”

Men Firsts Running White Higher Backgrounds Educated Privileged Sanctuary Primates

Author:Russell Banks

“When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.”

Way Song Rooms Audience Fronts Music Is Happenings Backgrounds Buzz

Author:Wes Borland

“As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans.”

Important Effort Perspective Members Congress Backgrounds Combination Typical Visitors Smithsonian

Author:Xavier Becerra

“The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition!”

Two Three Five Four Ten Invisible Backgrounds Seconds Anchors Stirring Crescendo Background Music Countdown

Author:Gene Cernan

“My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb. That doesn't mean I didn't experience hardship, but to me it's not about that, it's about the future and where we are trying to take it.”

Trying Mean Home Grows Class Growing Up Middle Grew Projects Grew Up Hip Hop Backgrounds Hips Middle Class Hops Hardship Typical Suburbs Family Home

Author:Kid Cudi

“I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.”

Years I Can Rocks Blue Backgrounds Contemporary Shakes Punk Jeans Scratches Punk Rock Spirals Admirer Flutes Blue Jeans Contemporary Music

Author:Billy Childish

“I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.”

Trying Stuff My Own Waste Backgrounds Modest Good Sense

Author:Marco Arment

“The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts.”

World Way Giving Art Girl Study Advice Art Is Backgrounds Academic Eastern Beneficial

Author:Nadia Ali

“My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.”

Cutting Products Backgrounds Owners Sugar Plantations Sugar Cane

Author:Diane Abbott

“My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.”

Moments School Law Imagination My Own Boys Son Finished Backgrounds Agents My Imagination Fbi Law School Proudest Moments Fbi Agents

Author:Frank Abagnale

“Every gun sold should require a background check, period.”

Should Periods Gun Backgrounds Checks Background Checks

Author:Gary Ackerman

“God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.”

Ideas States America United United States Diversity Blessed Burden Backgrounds

Author:Emanuel Cleaver

“My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.”

Different Play Jobs Roles Backgrounds Orientation Different Backgrounds

Author:Josh Charles

“I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.”

People Different Moments Stage Backgrounds Different Backgrounds

Author:Sofia Coppola

“But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.”

Desire Space Awareness Universal Backgrounds Analysis Providing Radar Anomalies

Author:Stephen Cambone

“When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking.”

Long Doe Whole Moving Actors Asks Process Acting Movement Color Long Time Cameras Backgrounds Curious Movie Filmmaking Long Time Ago

Author:Stephen Chow

“I don't come from a privileged background.”

Backgrounds Privileged

Author:Bernardine Dohrn

“I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.”

People Has Beens Past Class My Family Backgrounds Working Class Upstairs Posh

Author:Michelle Dockery

“I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.”

Years Lasts Names Hundred Years Ago India Catholic Raised Backgrounds Portuguese

Author:Dinesh D'Souza

“Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.”

People World Should Black Loses Should Have Towns Backgrounds Recognition Museums Black People Alienation Relationships With Others

Author:Katherine Dunham

“Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us.”

Mind Eye My Own Deals Known Knowing Saws Seeing Husband Accomplish Backgrounds My Husband Costumes Choreography

Author:Katherine Dunham

“I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.”

Comedy Type Backgrounds Sketch Comedy

Author:Jenna Fischer

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