All my adult life, there was the Troubles. That was the backdrop of my life. — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
I always try to put a strong political context, as a backdrop, in my films. — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older. — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment. — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human… — Bryant Gumbel Copy Share Image
Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop. — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution. — Jeanine Basinger Copy Share Image
Today, I would describe a preistess as a woman who lives in two worlds at once, who perceives life on earth against… — Jalaja Bonheim Copy Share Image
As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I can't tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. I look forward to exploring family entertainment… — Jon Favreau Copy Share Image
In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It's scenery. But without good worldbuilding,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Against the backdrop of people who avoid work, cut corners, and do half-hearted jobs, a diligent man stands out. Practicing diligence is… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
The music is used as a backdrop. I take the kundalini and I play against the notes with it. I do a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What it targets is not something that's really looked at a lot in terms of the war. This is stuff that's off… — Gary Cole Copy Share Image
We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Beautifully written, intensely passionate and gripping, FALLEN grabbed me from the first sentence and didn’t let go. Its eerie future world and… — Linnea Sinclair Copy Share Image
Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic position… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I think that those of us who are ordinary disappear easily into the backdrop of life and we take things for granted.… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
'Rocky' is a movie that just happens to be about boxing. It's really about characters and story lines and relationships and all… — Triple H Copy Share Image
... in the eyes of its visitors, Venice has no reality of its own. Anyone visiting the place has already seen so… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos. — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I'd like to change the depictions of life, love, and adventure under what's known as the typical, overused backdrop of Hollywood. — Romany Malco Copy Share Image
They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert. — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
I'm looking forward to locking swords with Douglas Henshall and working against the stunning backdrop of Shetland. I came to Scotland a… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
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