Backgrounds Quotes · Page 14

Sports is a way of entertainment, to people who are in different backgrounds, and for people who dedicated their lives to achieve…

— Emerson Fittipaldi

A good game impresses you with what you're doing. I think that's a fundamental difference that I as a game designer need…

— Sid Meier

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

— Dorothy Allison

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.

— Grace Paley

My husband and I have very similar backgrounds even though we're years apart. So there are a lot of things that we…

— Annette Bening

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic…

— Rob James-Collier

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have…

— Bill Bruford

The Eagles, let's face it, they were a pretty cool group, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie. I had this really eclectic background in music.

— Meredith Brooks

In terms of what Hillary Clinton, who's running for president, thinks about Catholics and the value more broadly of having a faith…

— Tim Kaine

People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into…

— Michael Howard

I don't think I'm a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and…

— Dolly Parton

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that…

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

I love old architecture. I love collecting furniture, mixing really earthy things with the very polished. I don't come from an interiors…

— Jason Wu

I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King…

— Bill Bryson

Since I come from documentary background and my father is a documentary filmmaker, for me the core essence of cinema is it's…

— Ivan Tverdovsky

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit.…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

I want to see that our older people still feel useful, and our younger people feel engaged in our wider society, and…

— Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger

In a large congregation, while there is a wide diversification of interest, it is also true that there are only a few…

— Norman Vincent Peale

The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about…

— Carol Higgins Clark

It's emotion. When you are watching a movie you see a woman sitting with her daughter and looking in her eyes and…

— Yung Joc

Wow,” Kylie muttered, and grinned. “Yeah, wow.” Della leaned in closer. “I think Perry just grew a pair.” Kylie bit down on…

— C.C. Hunter

One Mongolian leader became a very, very brutal dictator and eventually became a murderer. Previously, he was a monk, and then he…

— Dalai Lama

Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock,…

— David Lynch

The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense.

— Negash Ali

I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit,…

— Maurice Gibb

Where we have a different background [with Hillary Clinton] on this issue is we differ on the war in Iraq, which created…

— Hillary Clinton

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

— Paula Broadwell

Whatever our background, culture or race, what rewards us most powerfully and consistently are the most deceptively simple abilities of all: the…

— Stephanie Dowrick

I think [my kids] are runners. They definitely have the background. I try to help them as much as I can.

— Meb Keflezighi

We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove…

— Frank Moore Cross

The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

— Rob Paulsen

The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and…

— Aaron Sorkin

Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay…

— Anna Friel

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

— Jeremy Grantham

Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.

— Gloria Steinem

I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage.

— Tommy Wiseau

Everybody has a background. Everybody has a past. Not everybody's the same person all the way through.

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the…

— Brian Eno

Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be a benefit.

— Viggo Mortensen