Top 1200 Background Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
It's great that we have so many people from so many diverse background in the 'Drag Race' family.
My method is subtraction. I use erasers to make the images in my paintings. You really have to see it to fully get it, but it is basically erasing shapes from a background of paint.
Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.
Government and companies working together to support parents, teachers, and mentors within the community can give kids a strong background in financial literacy.
I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on.
the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.
I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready.
I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.
I'm not of a science background, I was never a comic book geek, and I was never a gamer.
I love telly so much and I come from a telly background, I used to work in production.
People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.
With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.
Coming from a programming background, I have a good sense of what's feasible and what's not feasible in a game.
I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
I won't be allowing my own background or my own sexual orientation to dictate the decisions that I make.
A man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.
How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
I support common-sense measures like universal background checks to prevent guns from falling into the hands of criminals and the dangerously mentally ill.
It doesn't matter what gender you are, or it doesn't matter what other background you come from: everybody deals with insecurity.
As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such.
I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.
Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.
There's only so long you can play the silent type standing in the background. 'GoldenEye' was good for that. I was the villain: James Bond was doing all the heavy lifting. I liked that.
I wasn't very academically inclined, growing up as a child, and the only subject I was good at was English. I had a flair for it, since I came from a literary background.
I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church.
I really never thought I was that good at film. And honestly still don't. My strength is language. My background is monologues and a certain kind of Brechtian spin on theater.
I knew there were going to be a lot of fighting scenes, and I'm not a very sporty person, I have a dancing background, which I thought would help; it did not.
I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.
My character in 'Ivan Thanthiran' is in stark contrast to my role in 'U Turn.' Here, I play Asha, a hard working girl belonging to a middle-class background.
I used to be a very serious pianist, and I was one of the snot-nosed classical ones who was appalled by nightmares of Ethel Merman and trombones blasting in the background and who knows what else.
I was always the one in the background or the donkey. I was never a star, I never got to be the main part.
I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.
Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background of thousands of earlier ads.
Maybe because I am from a sports background, I don't give up easily. I am a fighter.
I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.
It's been fun to just play bass in a band and play live but be in the background.
Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.
I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.
Where you are born, your parent's beliefs, or your ethnic background should not make you a target.
Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.
As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.
Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.
I had come from an orchestral background, but I didn't really have any orchestral pieces for film.
As far as music is concerned, I played music for a very long time, so I have a background in that.
The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.
I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity
And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.
That's where my amateur background helps. You step on a scale, you fight whoever they tell you to fight.
U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here.
I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem.
I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.
Some young people can rely on a privileged background and great connections to get work experience, but I don't believe anybody can be guaranteed success nowadays.
In the cultural Thermomix that is Australia, it's natural that we pick up a taste for flavours, techniques and ingredients that are integral to a place or a people not from our own background.
I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.
Football is for everyone, no matter what background you're from, what age, what level you play at. This is what it's all about: coming out today, having a good time, and getting involved.
In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.
