Backgrounds Quotes · Page 29

It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't matter if you have training or a background in it. Just create something, and…

— Nathan Parsons

You watch the country-music awards that they show on the television, and you see country music has reached about 1985. It's all…

— Andy Partridge

In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always…

— Ben Bagdikian

Working on 'Gossip Girl' was a fantastic experience. It was my first real gig and I'm thankful for it - I got…

— Dreama Walker

I'm not from a particularly sci-fi background. I'm not anti sci-fi at all, but I've never been known as a sci-fi writer…

— Ben Richards

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

— Thomas Kuhn

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.

— Aretha Franklin

It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I…

— Anonymous

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it…

— Eddie Vedder

he challenge is finding the modern conduit for the audience, having fun and really looking at the duality of this particular character,…

— Joseph Fiennes

I was very compelled by a woman who would choose this profession. She [Maura Isles] came from a very highly-educated, wealthy background…

— Sasha Alexander

Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct…

— Eckhart Tolle

I actually don't see that strong of a connection between my background as a rock 'n roller and my early films. In…

— Cliff Martinez

When I think about what we need to do, we have 33,000 people a year who die from guns. I think we…

— Hillary Clinton

Didn't we all have dreams when we were young? But the reality of making a living took over when we had to…

— Lucinda Bassett

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

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

— Sally Ride

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

— Kevin Sessums

Winnipeg has the largest collection of Inuit art in the world, I believe. They can be quite simple in a great way…

— Marcel Dzama

My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom,…

— Emeril Lagasse

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

— Meb Keflezighi

Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than the sum…

— Louis Nizer

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in…

— Roger Bannister

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together…

— Sophia Bush

I didn't read the script [ Rules Don't Apply ] for a couple years. It basically amounted to this kind of apprenticeship…

— Alden Ehrenreich