Background Quotes

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People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that… — C. Northcote Parkinson
I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper… — Helmut Newton
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. — Dorothy Allison
I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up. — Max Schmeling
Bones tell me the story of a person's life â€” how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background, — Kathy Reichs
At the opening of our exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York we featured a wall of 10,000 bananas. Green bananas created a pattern against… — Stefan Sagmeister
If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in… — Janet Burroway
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity. — Yahoo Serious
Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing. — Fay Wray
I come from a traditional theater background. — Mark Ruffalo
Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time. — Caroline Corr
I wasn't a great background singer. — Faith Hill
Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten… — Lucille Roybal-Allard
My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a… — Rudolph A. Marcus
The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days. — Satyajit Ray
The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background. — Kim Jong Il
Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that. — Sean Connery
You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine… — Michelangelo Antonioni
Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and state… — Raymond Louis Wilder
My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be… — Jeri Ryan

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