Backgrounds Quotes · Page 27

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel…

— Paul Theroux

The only recording studio was in Motown - it was called Tamla/Motown at that time and we used to audition there because…

— Diana Ross

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

— John Dieterich

But the stuff that I do is more like all the comic roles like in The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus and…

— Jason Graae

Well, it's not all the same, but there are a lot of parallels. I'm not sure how to answer [on psychology background],…

— Paul Beatty

[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God…

— Ann Voskamp

I have an artist background and I got into the field because I heard things in my own head that weren't happening…

— Emily Lazar

Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle…

— Mu Xin

I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education.…

— Steve Kerr

Honestly this is not going to change unless the people who want to prevent these kinds of mass shootings from taking place…

— Barack Obama

All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I…

— Patrick Stewart

Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.

— Joseph Stefano

I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and…

— John Lennon

Nothing about character is hereditary. Everyone, regardless of social background, financial status, race, or sex, enters the world with an equal opportunity…

— Michael Josephson

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative…

— Eric Bana

My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference…

— Christopher Walken

The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an…

— Louise Bernikow

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

I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We…

— Barbara Jordan

Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave - that is, a traveling…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

We have a man [Donald Trump] who judges people based on their performance regardless of your gender, race, your ethnic or religious…

— Chris Christie

So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the…

— Uwe Boll

A good radio show will captivate you, and it's active listening. It's not in the background.

— Rush Limbaugh

I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a…

— John Frusciante

You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters…

— Jamie Dornan