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Author:Gio Gonzalez

“Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.”

Series Expected Backgrounds Checks Telling The Truth Penalties Attorney Assistants Perjury Background Checks

Author:Trey Gowdy

“My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.”

New York Office Moved London Backgrounds Advertising Agency Ads

Author:Cindy Gallop

“I think a lot of people think I was born in a blue suit, on the David Brinkley show. And that isn't me. I am much more that kid who grew up in South St. Louis, in a very modest household, with a simple background with parents who didn't get through high school.”

People Thinking Shows Kids School Parent Born Simple Grew Grew Up High School Blue South Backgrounds Suits Household Modest

Author:Dick Gephardt

“When an office-holder facing a multi-count indictment says that he has decided to spend more time with his family, the proper response is a horse-laugh. When an accused politician explains that a charge of corruption is 'really' an attack on his or her race, religion, ethnic background or gender, the odds that something felonious happened jumps.”

Race Laughing Happened Politician Office Decided Horse Response Corruption Gender Backgrounds More Time Odds Accused Indictment Ethnic Background

Author:Jeff Greenfield

“My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.”

Way Parent Poor Growing Up Saws Growing Succeed Backgrounds Grades Poor Background

Author:Jennifer Garner

“I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.”

Knows Used Crime Willing Unique Beats Prison Phones Lawyer Backgrounds Used To Be Suspense Cop Reporters Phone Calls Specialty

Author:Lisa Gardner

“Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be a lawyer. You don't need to have some professional degree.”

Needs Believe Important Running Able Certain Issues Office Degrees Lawyer Backgrounds Running For Office

Author:Matt Gonzalez

“My background is Scottish.”

Backgrounds Scottish

Author:Melissa George

“I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it.”

Feels Prove Approach Humble Pops Backgrounds Salsa Faking It

Author:Marc Anthony

“The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult.”

Firsts Facts Humanity Given Difficult Challenges Interesting Months Weakness Backgrounds Realization Harvard Arts And Humanities

Author:Philip Warren Anderson

“No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.”

Character Novel Aspect Casts Backgrounds Familiar

Author:Piers Anthony

“Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.”

Firsts Mean Long Term Stage Tvs Seasons Backgrounds Long Term Episodes Wasteland

Author:Sasha Alexander

“I couldn't believe it! I mean, I'd always dreamed of acting on the screen - my previous background was all theater - but I wasn't sure if the opportunity would ever present itself. Not only was this acting for the screen, this was acting in 'The Hunger Games!' I knew that I had to give this audition my all.”

Ifs Giving Believe Mean Opportunity Games Acting Theater Hunger Screens Backgrounds Auditions

Author:Jacqueline Emerson

“So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house.”

Ifs Thinking Way Persons Has Beens House Bits Waiting Dark Walks Scared Backgrounds Drivers Wait For Me

Author:Petra Stunt

“I'd had the theater background for so long that I know that world inside out; I just didn't know the pace of how a TV set works, like how a show shoots.”

Knows World Long Shows Tvs Theater Backgrounds Pace

Author:Sutton Foster

“Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

“To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.”

Mind Philosophy Quiet Backgrounds

Author:William James

“English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.”

Has Beens Language Meetings Backgrounds Greek Latin Vacuums Renaissance Hebrew Cleaners Vikings Latin And Greek

Author:David Crystal

“Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.”

Children Different School Given Social Levels Achieve Backgrounds Composition Different Levels Family Background

Author:James S. Coleman

“The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.”

Children Strong Results Race Effects Achievement Weak Increase Educational Backgrounds Adverse Adverse Effects Educational Background

Author:James S. Coleman

“Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.”

Culture Backgrounds League Academic Academia Ivy Ivy League

Author:Paul Giamatti

“I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.”

People Religious Virtue Backgrounds

Author:Walter Gilbert

“For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity.”

Ifs Trying Opportunity Havens Wave Backgrounds Being The Best Hiding Flags Asian Discredit Asian American American Flag

Author:Chad Hugo

“Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.”

Baby Backgrounds

Author:Chris Hemsworth

“A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation.”

Way Done Stuff Focus Color Infinite Cameras Speed Backgrounds Tone Digital Realism Experimentation Retro Racers Digital Cameras Speed Racer

Author:Emile Hirsch

“I think that people, despite my law enforcement background, view me as taking these consistently progressive stands, and I think that, philosophically, there is a desire to get at that person. But I think the stands I have taken are totally consistent with a person who is looking at things realistically, factually.”

People Thinking Persons Law Desire Views Taken Backgrounds Despite Consistent Progressive Consistently Law Enforcement Enforcement

Author:Eric Holder

“I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.”

People Understanding Views Party Compassion Principles Speech Tolerance Backgrounds Labour Freedom Of Speech Labour Party Limiting Freedom Of Expression

Author:Geoff Hoon

“I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid.”

“In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East, and we're not going to be divided along any lines.”

Trying America Religious Lines Middle Solutions Including East Backgrounds Peaceful Divided Middle East Ethnic Background

Author:Darrell Issa

“I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.”

Asks Backgrounds Orthodox

Author:Sonia Johnson

“I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.”

Father Class Backgrounds Working Class Coal Mining Miners Coal Miners Coal Mining

Author:Tom Jones

“I don't cry. Well, you know, I think coming from an acting background that's really helped me because I more than anyone know that an actor creates a character.”

Thinking Knows Wells Character Actors Acting Cry Backgrounds

Author:Joanna Kerns

“Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.”

Writing Firsts Long Character Novel Imagine Creating Pages Long Time Angry Backgrounds Fearful

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.”

Ifs World Way Humans Persons Stills Different Able Language Nations Differences Human Beings Common Race One Thing Appearance Backgrounds Despite Rays

Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“I will represent all of the people of Ohio, regardless of their background. I don't care if you are a Democrat, a Republican, a Libertarian or a vegetarian, I will be blind to race, religion or any kind of orientation.”

People Ifs Kind Care Race Republican Blind Democrat Don't Care Libertarian Backgrounds I Don't Care Vegetarian Orientation Ohio Great Libertarian

Author:Josh Mandel

“Sure, it's fun to chat with people with interesting backgrounds who seem to have a passion for your company. But a job interview is not a friendly chat. You need to determine whether candidates, can they really do the job. So ask them to prove it.”

People Needs Seems Jobs Passion Asks Fun Interesting Company Prove Determine Backgrounds Candidates Interviews Friendly Prove It Job Interview

Author:Kathryn Minshew

“My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.”

Giving Chance Brother Mom Dad University My Mom Backgrounds My Brother Academic Brothers And Sisters Mom And Dad Give Us A Chance

Author:Rob James-Collier

“I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc.”

Thinking Games Acting Careers Plans University Backgrounds Ads Academic Game Plan

Author:Rob James-Collier

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