Background Quotes

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My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do… — Christopher Walken
I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all… — Denzel Washington
When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my… — Florence Welch
I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a… — Paul Wellstone
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. — Edith Wharton
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. — Alfred North Whitehead
When I was trying to impress Kate, I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something,… — Prince William
I'm a traditional Jew with an orthodox background, and it informs much of my approach to science. Of course I think it's very important that… — Robert Winston
To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of… — Reese Witherspoon
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in… — Virginia Woolf
The miracle of unity is being granted to us as we pray and work for it in the Lord's way. Our hearts will be knit… — Henry B. Eyring
The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start… — Greg Graffin
I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life. — John Oliver
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But… — Neil Postman
She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her… — Jhumpa Lahiri
You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music. — Annie Proulx
What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and… — Anais Nin
O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul. — Spencer W. Kimball
A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking… — C.S. Lewis
Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed… — Elizabeth Gaskell

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