Academic Background Quotes
- I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background… — Bernice Johnson Reagon
- I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There… — Sarah Vowell
- I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I… — Kerry Washington
- Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. — Paul Giamatti
- My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to… — Rob James-Collier
- Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic… — Michael Hirst
- I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends… — Leonard Susskind
- Merit should count more than academic background. — Lee Myung-bak
- I'm very critical of myself and my own work, it's part of my academic background...I feel I'm still on the bottom of the learning curve,… — Sarah Wayne Callies