Top 1200 Background Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
The way that I opened the door for the young people that come from where I come from and that have a different background, that is what I want to be remembered for.
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
My dance background helped me tremendously. Dancing is like second nature to me.
When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.
It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't matter if you have training or a background in it. Just create something, and lend a piece of yourself to that art.
I've always had an affinity for writers who have a poetry background, so I always liked Tennessee Williams.
My background is from India, and I always get asked, 'When are you going to do an Indian film, a musical or Bollywood film?'
I multitask and always have the TV on in the background. If I need to focus, I generally have to turn off the TV.
You typically find stereotypical female characters that are people pleasers, where they are wives and girlfriends, typically, who are in the background.
The women who walk into Planned Parenthood clinics come from every background, every political persuasion.
As an actor, you tend to draw on your human instincts and your background, what you've gone through as an individual.
The coach's role is in the background; it's the players who come first. I am ready to take this role.
Just based on my own family and background, I would not be in a film that would exploit or sensationalize anyone.
I have a background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one.
Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.
I have an urban background, but I need melody, I need a song, so I try to mix and match and keep it fluid.
I'm a boys' girl! I come from an army background and I haven't known what being a 'good Indian girl' means.
I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.
I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.
Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self.
My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.
I've always said that theater was where I began, so everything I do now has a bit of my theater background in it. It was my training.
Look, I like my music, and I don't have a conventional background for a politician, but I'm pretty conventional in many senses.
TV is shifting into the background of just being another appliance; it’s just a bigger screen.
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 you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.
My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.
I started my cycling academy to try and get more people from a BAME background into cycling.
I just never wanted to be too much in the background. I always wanted to be a part of things.
Governor Granholm had all the right values but didn't have the right background.
To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.
The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.
Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.
It doesn't matter where you're from. You can be from the hood or the suburbs. You can be poor with no education or a college graduate. No matter your background, you can win.
I think it's difficult for people to understand that when you come from an impoverished background you're very limited in the way you think.
It doesn't matter what background you come from; it doesn't matter what your circumstances are - you can survive.
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.
My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.
The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
I wouldn't miss the fame. I don't go out hunting for it. I try to avoid it and to slip into the background wherever I go.
I come from a film background as I studied film at art school.
I am not from any acting background, not from any film family.
I listen to a lot of music from outside, lot of background scores.
You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.
Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.
I'm a normal girl from a normal background, I just happen to be in the public eye. My job is to be on TV and that's it.
Coming from an action background, I always approach the action sequences in any script as kind of placeholders.
I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.
Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background, the clothing. I haven't changed at all.
If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.
I trained at a conservatory as a mezzo-soprano and was a musical theater major in college so I had a theater background.
My background is more horror or thriller, and you can't get better than horror fans, as far as I'm concerned.
I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.
My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.
I come from a wrestling background - my father and grandfather were into wrestling.
Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.
I was glad to have had some dance background because some of the dances are pretty wild.
I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.
It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.
