Backgrounds Quotes · Page 18

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

— Gore Vidal

I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.

— Julia Child

I'm a boys' girl! I come from an army background and I haven't known what being a 'good Indian girl' means.

— Anushka Sharma

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

— Jack Vance

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

— Rand Paul

I want to make sure that I represent a variety of backgrounds and that represents the reality out here in the world.

— Vijay Iyer

I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.

— Carrie Ann Inaba

Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else…

— George Mason

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't…

— Sarah Vowell

'Built This Pool' was an idea that I had for a song starting several years ago, and as we were in between…

— Mark Hoppus

I'd like to see more Canadians of diverse backgrounds engaging with parties that line up with their convictions and ideologies to make…

— Justin Trudeau

When a reporter files a piece about Republican that slams Republican or law enforcement or hypes up climate change, there's no attempt…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

I've had the chance to work with some really good filmmakers. It's put me in a situation where I've been surrounded by…

— Alicia Vikander

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both…

— David Bowie

I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want…

— Cedric Yarbrough

Shake It Up is a buddy comedy based around dance. It's about two best friends Rocky and CeCe who live out their…

— Zendaya

I don't do all the background and the worldbuilding before I start the story. What I do is I work out the…

— Garth Nix

We've had a wonderful, wonderful life together. We've been in many places, we've had the experiences, and now we have the memories.…

— David B. Haight

There was a Yale even before Larry [Kramer] and I got there, and there were three designations of students: "white shoe," "brown…

— Kevin Sessums

Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes…

— Reginald Horace Blyth

Having a background in doing printmaking and letterpress, I think that I became very interested in images that were flat and graphic.…

— Margaret Kilgallen

I am quite international. My background, born in Turkey. My family is a Jewish family from Iran, so I went from Turkey…

— Nouriel Roubini

I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as…

— Michael Gungor

One does not think during creative work, any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of…

— Edward Weston

I don't think of my music as something that works well in the background. And because a lot of it isn't in…

— Max Tundra

There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.

— Anonymous

Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of…

— Lillian Bassman

I believe that each of us-no matter what our age or background or walk of life-each of us has something to contribute…

— Michelle Obama

Romesh Ranganathan and I come from similar backgrounds and we've both done well for ourselves.

— Rob Beckett

My background is in like short form digital media, I call myself more of a digital filmmaker than anything else.

— Jason Silva

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

— Casey Kasem

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the…

— George Santayana

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

— Brian Tee

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

— Sara Paretsky

I was glad to have had some dance background because some of the dances are pretty wild.

— Piper Perabo

When I joined the band I was coming largely from an improvising background, and the idea of a fluid rhythm that was…

— John Dieterich

N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

— J. I. Packer

Many of the people I've worked with over the years came from a sketch-comedy background or an improv background, and I've learned…

— Megan Mullally

My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane,…

— Frederick Lenz

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with…

— Bobby Vinton