A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
We've all had that moment where the agent thought he hit hold. You hear it's like Hamburger Hill in the background. — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
I understand that I may make mistakes with characters who don't share my own background, but I commit to doing my best. — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations. — Josh Charles Copy Share Image
On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights. — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
I love working with people who have had television experience because I think there's a real efficiency and methodology that comes from… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
I think all races are represented in America much more than in many other places, but it's also nice to remind people… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
No man has ever appreciated the gospel until the law has first revealed him to himself. It is only against the inky… — John Stott Copy Share Image
If this was The Lord of the Rings and I had a smart British voice like Cate Blanchett, I could tell you… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the… — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
I grew up in music theater playing to the audience - singing and dancing and showing off. That's really my background. But… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Acting is a job you can learn a lot in. You get to play lots of different characters with different professions and… — Kelly McCreary Copy Share Image
All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sports can unite a group of people from different backgrounds, all working together to achieve a common goal. And even if they… — Ahmad Rashad Copy Share Image
If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties… — J. C. Kumarappa Copy Share Image
he challenge is finding the modern conduit for the audience, having fun and really looking at the duality of this particular character,… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities,… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
I think great businessmen are more likely made than born. I don't know if it's from your upbringing, your parental background, the… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements -… — Stephen Chow Copy Share Image
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than… — Tomas Transtromer Copy Share Image
The technical stuff is easy to deal with, it's just supplemental to the plight - it's not a real thing, it's just… — Eyedea Copy Share Image
There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish,… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new. — Lowell Bergman Copy Share Image
He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
But maybe those things are like background noise if you’re from here. Maybe you have to experience this as a whole new… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which… — Valorie Curry Copy Share Image
Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the… — Fay Wray Copy Share Image
In high school, I came to realize I had a second-hand faith, derived from my parents and family background. I had no… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I love the plus (fashion) industry! It embraces a lot of women who would otherwise disappear into the background. I truly love… — Liris Crosse Copy Share Image
I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and… — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things. — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
