For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy. — Gabby Douglas Copy Share Image
This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing… — Stanley Schmidt Copy Share Image
I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway. — Damian McGinty Copy Share Image
I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself. — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background. — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Even though I have fond feelings for comedy clubs, I enjoy the focus you get in a theater. Comedy clubs are a… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
You will find scraps of paper all over the house when I am designing a new woodcut and woe betide the person… — Margaret Preston Copy Share Image
I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My… — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context,… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
Everyone uses the brain at every moment, but we use it unconsciously. We let it run in the background without realizing the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Dear friends, let us not forget the flesh of Christ which is in the flesh of refugees: their flesh is the flesh… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
My background, I really am a computer hacker. I've studied computer science, I work in computer security. I'm not an actively a… — Dave Asprey Copy Share Image
The Youth Employment Fund is helping Ontario's young people build valuable skills and access job opportunities that will lay the groundwork for… — Brad Duguid Copy Share Image
When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
No doubt Carter would describe the underground city in excruciating detail, with exact measurements of each room, boring history on every statue… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else's movie. Consider this: nothing would be… — David Niven Copy Share Image
My background sets me apart. I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child. — Neon Hitch Copy Share Image
I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity. — Dexter Fletcher Copy Share Image
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… — Sasha Alexander Copy Share Image
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
If that were a winning argument, Donald Trump could get anybody off the bench on his cases by just something deeply offensive… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities. — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go. — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing. — Joseph Stefano Copy Share Image
I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about… — Jon Bernthal Copy Share Image
It's so important to raise awareness of this problem that continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their… — Anna Friel Copy Share Image
Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Change can only exist in time. Without time there is no change. Change can only exist with a background of that which… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
