“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.” PeopleWayKindAgeCertainActorsBitsFindingsBackgroundsLike MePosh Author:Kaya Scodelario
“Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be a benefit.” LittlesFeelingsBitsWaterBenefitsLittle BitFishesBackgrounds Author:Viggo Mortensen
“We [ with Andy Samberg] knew each other for the last few years, our names are similar, our looks are a little bit similar, and our backgrounds are similar. The Judaism is quite similar.” YearsLooksLittlesLastsNamesBitsLittle BitBackgroundsJudaism Author:Adam Sandler
“The discipline, nonetheless, is exacting: everything that can be observed should be observed, even if it is only recalled as the bland background from which the intriguing bits pop out like Venus in the evening sky. The goal is always finding something new, hopefully unimagined and, better still, hitherto unimaginable.” IfsShouldStillsBitsGoalSkyDisciplineFindingsPopsBackgroundsEveningHopefullySomething NewIntriguingVenusUnimaginableBlandEvening Sky Author:Karl Barry Sharpless
“I am quite international. My background, born in Turkey. My family is a Jewish family from Iran, so I went from Turkey to Iran to Israel, and then grew up in Italy and ended up in U.S. for graduate school. So I tend to look at things from an international perspective, and I think that gives you a little bit of a broader view of what's going on.” ThinkingGivingLooksLittlesSchoolBitsBornViewsPerspectiveGrewLittle BitGrew UpMy FamilyInternationalIsraelBackgroundsIranGraduatesTurkeysGraduate SchoolJewish Family Author:Nouriel Roubini
“For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages.” WritingDifferentShowsCultureBitsBackgroundsVillageDifferent CulturesDifferent Backgrounds Author:Paulo Coelho