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Backgrounds Quotes

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Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.
Travis Tritt

Authors on Backgrounds Quotes: Charlie Kaufman Frederick Lenz Beck Wilbur Smith Henry Blackaby Breaux Greer Larry David Lorenzo di Bonaventura Sonia Johnson John Travolta Jerry Spinelli Abbe Pierre W. E. B. Griffin George Osborne Chaim Potok Ian Kershaw Michael Bassey Dexter Fletcher Tim Harford Herbert Jefferson, Jr. Peter Mayle Arfa Karim Nhat Hanh Cy Coleman Ryan Lochte Jodie Foster Ben Whishaw Sally Ride Wilferd Peterson Bruce Greenwood Mangosuthu Buthelezi Loretta Lux Cholly Atkins
2.
I came out of a family background that involved itself with people.
Ella Baker

3.
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
Iris Murdoch

4.
Your life can become the background for the art you create.
Alicia Keys

5.
I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

6.
There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships
Lyonel Feininger

7.
Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.
Pope Benedict XVI

8.
The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.
Jonathan Franzen

9.
Hitler was highly secretive - not least about his personal life, his background, and his family.
Ian Kershaw

10.
I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.
Paul Walker

11.
Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.
Sean Connery

12.
I belong to a purely agricultural family from a rural background.
Arfa Karim

13.
I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.
Jarvis Cocker

14.
A weak background is a deadly thing.
Robert Henri

15.
I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.
Mariah Carey

16.
A good radio show will captivate you, and it's active listening. It's not in the background.
Rush Limbaugh

17.
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
Dorothy Allison

18.
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
Gustave Flaubert

19.
Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.
Witold Gombrowicz

20.
I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

21.
My family background was deeply Christian.
Abbe Pierre

22.
Jazz is not background music.
Horace Silver

23.
I don't come from a privileged background.
Bernardine Dohrn

24.
It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.
Benjamin McKenzie

25.
Choice is always performed against a background of habit.
Nicholas Wolterstorff

26.
As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.
William Baziotes

27.
Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.
Andrew Sean Greer

28.
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
Michael Caine

29.
In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.
Charlie Brooker

30.
My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.
William Standish Knowles

31.
My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
Larry David

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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
Robert Genn

33.
I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
David Hockney

34.
The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.
Deborah Needleman

35.
I come from rather an international, or in other words, a cosmopolitan background.
George Blake

36.
When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.
Idris Elba

37.
We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
Barbara Jordan

38.
At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.
Dee Dee Warwick

39.
Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.
Joseph Stefano

40.
When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.
Jenna Morasca

41.
I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.
Bruce Greenwood

42.
The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.
Loretta Lux

43.
When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.
Blixa Bargeld

44.
I love folk; that's a big part of my background.
Amy Lee

45.
No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.
Peter Mayle

46.
We don't realise how much the world has affected us. We put God in the background.
Henry Blackaby

47.
By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.
Jeremy Grantham

48.
My background was in performing originally.
Cy Coleman

49.
Your background has a lot to do with your approach to movement.
Cholly Atkins

50.
If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object.
Frederick Lenz