Backgrounds Quotes

935 quotes by 827 authors

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what… — Billy Higgins
The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets. — Edmond Jabes
Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them. — Robert Genn
Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground...… — Mu Xin
You should not be hovering in the background, inflating the drama. Simply envelop him in love and affection and let him know that you will… — Amy Dickinson
I felt like I could be a good example that you don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already… — Sara McMann
I was born in New York but as a baby moved to Venezuela and Argentina. I've also lived in Denmark, where my father's from. I've… — Viggo Mortensen
Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be a benefit. — Viggo Mortensen
In boxing, where most of the guys are from lower-class backgrounds and have darker skin than most of the fans, one might fear that the… — Jonathan Gottschall
All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.There was… — Patrick Stewart
I realize that people won't even download the entire album and might just download a song or two and put it in a playlist for… — Mikal Cronin
There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have more economic and… — Gwen Ifill
As far as music being something that's not background, it doesn't mean that it's loud, it means that it's instantly something to dwell on and… — Youth Lagoon
My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding… — Jessica Valenti
I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting. — Tommy Wiseau
When I want to choose to work with someone, you know, I definitely have to do some research on their background and how they were… — Theophilus London
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a… — William Kempe
The history of the genocide perpetrated during the Second World War does not belong to the past only. It is a â€˜living historyâ€™ that concerns… — Irina Bokova
Part of the approach envisaged in bringing about Black Consciousness has to be directed to the past, to seek to rewrite the history of the… — Steven Biko
A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment. — Robert Edmond Jones

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