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Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.”

People Knows Water Space Consciousness Awareness Concerned Constant Fishes Details Backgrounds Ignorant Exceptional

Author:Alan Watts

“The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture is African and magic, and the purposes of magic are control and power. . . Voodoo or magic was the religion and life of American Negroes. Voodoo songs underlie jazz, and old voodoo, with its power goal, has been merely replaced with revolutionary voodoo, a modernized power drive.”

Has Beens Purpose Religion Song Culture Goal Cases Rights Magic Groups Jazz Backgrounds Civil Rights Revolutionary Replaced Voodoo

Author:R.J. Rushdoony

“I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.”

Persons Light Happens Force White Series Photographer Backgrounds Narrative Composition Seduction Exquisite

Author:Richard Avedon

“The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.”

Ifs Writing Wells Ends Play Stuff Pay Attention Watches Backgrounds Pay Attention Background Music

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.”

Way Kind Sometimes Character Film Song Watches Music Is Backgrounds Conventional Background Music

Author:Wes Anderson

“I've always been a fan of vinyl. There's something about the ritual of it. Something about it holds its gravity, for some reason. Sometimes you'll put on music and the music fades into the background. But when you take that vinyl out and put it down, the music becomes the conversation as opposed to being the soundtrack to it.”

Sometimes Reason Fans Conversation Music Is Backgrounds Ritual Gravity Fades Soundtracks Vinyl

Author:Frank Iero

“I started in a business background, but then it was like, 'you know, I can't do math,' so I changed it to a liberal arts degree and got my Bachelor of Arts in Communications and it made sense.”

Knows Art Made I Can Changed Communication Like You Degrees Math Backgrounds Bachelors Liberal Arts Arts Degrees Bachelor Of Arts

Author:Jeff Dunham

“I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.”

Knows Mean Persons Doe Courses Language Backgrounds Supposed To Be Love Someone Worldview Informing Foreground

Author:Aaron Belz

“the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!”

Men World Kind Helping Secret Known Ready Corners Tongue Clever Backgrounds Earning Spiteful Clever Woman

Book:Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact

Source: Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact

“The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.”

Waiting Hours Company Watches Loneliness Television Illusion Seven Average Backgrounds Companionship

Book:Alone in America: the search for companionship

Source: Alone in America: the search for companionship

“All communication is more or less cross-cultural. We learn to use language as we grow up, and growing up in different parts of the country, having different ethnic, religious, or class backgrounds, even just being male or female - all result in different ways of talking.”

Source: That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks your relations with others

“Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.”

Sometimes Individual Music Support Activity Performances Jazz Flying Backgrounds Artistic Providing Innovative Participants Repetitive Time Flies Flying Free

Book:Composing a Life

Source: Composing a Life

“The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action.”

May Long Action Courses Clear Goes On Projects Conscience Determine Backgrounds Sinner Consolation Assured Reckless Future Time

Author:Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“Oh, from what heights of blessing it is possible for a man to fall! To what depths of sin a man can descend, even with all that spiritual background! The higher the pinnacle of blessing, authority, and publicity he has attained by grace, the deeper and more staggering can be his collapse. There is never a day in any man's life but that he is dependent upon the grace of God for power and the blood of Jesus for cleansing.”

Men Spiritual Fall Jesus Sin Grace Blood Higher Blessing Authority Depth Deeper Backgrounds Height Dependent Collapse Grace Of God Publicity Cleansing Staggering Pinnacle Blood Of Jesus

Author:Alan Redpath

“Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.”

Knows Source Backgrounds Files Homework

Author:Jane Brody

“Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.”

Soul Passion Backgrounds Background Music

Book:The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

Source: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

“All of the members of my new team have displayed in their work a strong sense of pragmatism that I promote... The backgrounds of principal officials are diverse, they all share a common commitment to our country, our territory and our people and agree with my governing philosophy.”

People Country Philosophy Strong Common Team Share Members Commitment Agree Backgrounds Our Country Officials Territory Diverse Principal Governing Pragmatism

Author:Donald Tsang

“I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.”

Ideas Parent Singing Dancing Folks Backgrounds Piano Our Family Cousin Family Background Your Cousin

Author:Teddy Thompson

“As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.”

Thinking Stories Interest Approach Creating Backgrounds Committees Creating Stories

Author:Nic Pizzolatto

“Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.”

Want Needs Should Government Military Should Have Tests Missions Backgrounds Pilots Astronaut Specialists Military Experience

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“We're being overrun by people who live in poor and corrupt countries who come to the USA to get work. But we got to regain our sovereignty, we're going to control our border, and there will be border security tied to the pathway to citizenship. There will be an earned pathway to citizenship. It will be available to everybody who works hard, pays a fine, passes a background check.”

People Country Hard Poor Pay Security Hard Work Fine Available Backgrounds Checks Borders Usa Tied Citizenship Sovereignty Pathways Background Checks Border Security

Author:Lindsey Graham

“I want to protect our constitutional right to bear arms in a legal and thoughtful way with background checks that also don't want people to get shot and murdered, but it doesn't mean that you can't own a gun.”

People Way Want Mean Arms Bears Protect Gun Shots Backgrounds Checks Thoughtful Right To Bear Arms Background Checks

Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. So what I know about writing, I know from my own instincts, and whatever the narrative voice is in my own head.”

Knows World Writing Has Beens School Voice My Own College Majors Training Instinct Medical Backgrounds Narrative Biology Formal Medical School Narrative Voice

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“I think people were not expecting us [with Robert Ben Garant] to, they were just like, "Well here come the writers," but we both were coming out of a sketch comedy background, so when we pitch a movie, we play every character in the film. You act it out, you perform it - you do a 10-minute performance of the movie.”

People Thinking Wells Play Character Film Comedy Minutes Performances Backgrounds Coming Out Expecting Sketch Comedy

Author:Thomas Lennon

“No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.”

Men Mind May Matter Hard Virtue Labor Rewards Backgrounds

Book:the conqueror

Source: the conqueror

“I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project.”

Would Be Nice Projects Musical Backgrounds Being Nice

Book:Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim

Source: Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim

“Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord.”

Ifs Loses Harmony Backgrounds Discord Attractiveness

Book:Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs

Source: Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs

“I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.”

Seeing Committed Backgrounds Staying Observers

Author:Valerie Trierweiler

“One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.”

Writing Romance Enjoy Historical Backgrounds Setting Settings

Author:Nicola Cornick

“Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family.”

Made Belief Strong Mom Catholic Backgrounds Czech

Author:Gene Cernan

“Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced my professional attitude, my way of approaching both music composition and singing, particularly phrasing.”

Way Country Attitude Singing Western Musical Various Backgrounds My Way Composition Back And Forth

Author:Rokia Traore

“Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.”

“I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.”

Children Backgrounds Shy

Author:Ben Whishaw

“The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.”

Important Ideas Mistake Catholic Important Things Backgrounds Repentance Righteous

Author:Jon Voight

“I haven't pursued it as a senator because I know it's like spitting in the wind. But I still believe it's the right thing. And if I were governor and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.”

Ifs Knows Believe Stills Shows Havens Wind Gun Bills Backgrounds Checks Right Thing Governors Desks Senators Pursued I Still Believe Background Checks

Author:Wendy Davis

“My background is in improv and writing.”

Writing Backgrounds

Author:Paul Scheer

“I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isnt always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.”

Knows Way Giving Should Children Two Parent My Own Son Should Have Divorce Backgrounds Best Way Therapy My Son Stable Family Life

Author:Regina King

“When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.”

Backgrounds Fragile Delicate Fades Delicate Life

Author:Jenna Morasca

“I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.”

Ifs Persons Character Can Do Audience Gun Convinced Backgrounds Cop

Author:Donnie Yen

“For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when it comes to the acting, there's a burden to acting in a period film because you have to stay within the character's historical background and the gestures of certain periods.”

Character Film Form Certain Challenges Acting Periods Historical Burden Backgrounds Contemporary Gestures

Author:Donnie Yen

“I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.”

Hard Poor Soldier Backgrounds Slums Poor Family

Author:Michael Caine

“Everything you know, all the things that you thought were important, drift into the background. And even things that were important really come to the fore and he's one of them.”

Knows Important Backgrounds

Author:Orlando Bloom

“Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola and Ernst Lubitsch. In art school, I studied painters like Edward Hopper, who used urban motifs, Franz Kafka is my favorite novelist. My approach to film stems from my art background, as I go beyond the story to the sub-conscious mood created by sound and images.”

Art Stories School Film Used Sound Directors Approach Conscious Inspired My Favorite Mood Backgrounds Painter Novelists Stem Urban Art School Stanley Hitchcock Wilder Motifs Bergman

Author:David Lynch

“I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet.”

People Thinking Different Culture Actors Grows Growing Up Youth Meetings Theatre Backgrounds Mixing Different Cultures Different Religions Different Backgrounds Youth Theatre

Author:Ashley Jensen

“In order to change a color it is enough to change the color of its background.”

Enough Order Color Backgrounds Colour

Author:Michel Eugene Chevreul

“with a country of rare picturesqueness for a background, a people of rare beauty for actors, everybody more or less permeated with the artistic instinct and everybody more or less writing poetry - California has a pageant for breakfast, a fiesta for luncheon and a carnival for dinner. They are always electing queens. In fact any girl in California who hasn't been a queen of something before she's twenty-one is a poor prune.”

“it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.”

Color Green Backgrounds Gardening Astonishing

Author:Mabel Osgood Wright

“Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.”

Spiritual Moving Purpose Achieve Evidence Backgrounds Foreground

Book:Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul

Source: Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul

“I don't have a background in design, so I think it's always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I'm going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.”

Thinking World Whole Process Growing Up Growing Design Inspire Evolution Backgrounds Modeling

Author:Erin Wasson

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