Backgrounds Quotes - Page 12

• Ask for feedback from people with diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you're at the top of the chain, sometimes people won't give you honest feedback because they're afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Giving, Honest Feedback

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• We can place a product, virtually any size, in almost any location. It really depends on what the program and the video in each individual episode provides in terms of a logical or contextual background.

  David Brenner

  Video, Location, Size

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• It's really amazing that two people from such different backgrounds and geographical origins ever got together. That was perhaps part of the attraction.

  Desi Arnaz

  Two, People, Together

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• Weed's not as bad as everything else... 'cause weed is a background substance. You know what I mean, you can smoke some herb and still function. You ain't crisp... but you'll function.

  Dave Chappelle

  Weed, Mean, Substance

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• Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life.

  Barbara Goldsmith

  Color, Alcohol, Fabric

  Barbara Goldsmith (2011). “LITTLE GLORIA”, p.120, Knopf

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• I want to tell you about a woman I have been married to for ten years, my wife, Ann, who speaking truthfully, saved me from myself. Who saved me from destroying myself because of my background. Who saved me from wasting my life, drinking my life away, never fulfilling my dreams because of what I had come from, and truly believing and loving - truly the first person to ever truthfully, unconditionally love me.

  George Lopez

  Dream, Drinking, Believe

  George Lopez (2004). “Why You Crying?: My Long, Hard Look at Life, Love, and Laughter”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel like my own background in improv and doing documentaries makes me really comfortable with a situation where you're letting things unfold and you don't have to be a jerk, stomping his feet, trying to get his way on everything.

  Seth Gordon

  Feet, Trying, Way

  "Exclusive: Director Seth Gordon Talks HORRIBLE BOSSES, WARGAMES and KING OF KONG". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 4, 2011.

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

  Idris Elba

  Littles, Overwhelmed, Feels

  "Idris Elba on ‘Luther’, Movie Possibilities, Neil Cross, His Upcoming Album, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 10, 2015.

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• he challenge is finding the modern conduit for the audience, having fun and really looking at the duality of this particular character, that is both devil and angel, and on the cusp of losing control of the pagan background, to this newfangled religion called Christianity. There's a great backdrop there, and just a whole dark side with the magic.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Fun, Character, Angel

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

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• I'm interested in everything about what it means to be a human being, so every role is an excuse to delve into a different way of life, a different socio-economic background, and a different tragic or comedic circumstance.

  Rachelle Lefevre

  Mean, Different, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• And then, one acting class turned into two, turned into four, and then turned into, "I love this. I could do this for the rest of my life. But, I don't have a background in acting. I never acted in college, or did anything like that. How can I go about doing this?" That meant going to grad school and getting some training, and I did. I literally walked down the path. It was real fortuitous for me to walk by that school, that one morning.

  Tim Kang

  Morning, Real, School

  Source: collider.com

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• I did more research into the police procedure. I worked out with SWAT guys and ex- and active military guys, and consulted with them and read books. As far as the character itself, I don't know how you can research being a focused guy, aside from just being a focused person and knowing what that's like. Outside of the character background and all that, there wasn't a whole lot of other stuff to really delve into. You just do what you do.

  Tim Kang

  Military, Book, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not from a particularly sci-fi background. I'm not anti sci-fi at all, but I've never been known as a sci-fi writer and, suddenly, I was creating a flagship BBC sci-fi show, which is terrifying sometimes.

  Ben Richards

  Creating, Sometimes, Sci Fi

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes maybe it's good to have someone doing a sci-fi show who's not actually necessarily from that background. It also means that sometimes I fall into the most elementary of traps.

  Ben Richards

  Fall, Mean, Sometimes

  "Ben Richards Exclusive Interview OUTCASTS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 21, 2010.

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• I was very compelled by a woman who would choose this profession. She [Maura Isles] came from a very highly-educated, wealthy background and could have chosen to do a lot of other things, and has this uber-feminine, modern woman mentality, but works this job.

  Sasha Alexander

  Jobs, Uber, Modern Woman

  Source: collider.com

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• When you have two different women coming from two very different backgrounds, it's fun for us because we get to explore how each one of them approaches their job and how they bring their own experiences to it.

  Sasha Alexander

  Jobs, Fun, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• We played more rock music when we were writing the script. 'Renegade'. All of the Styx songs. All of the old '70's and '80's music, that's the stuff that's pounding in the background while we were doing this stuff. It's a part of those movies.

  Todd Farmer

  Song, Writing, Rocks

  Source: collider.com

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• I mean, in many ways, you know, I felt very connected to Ian (Dury) on, on a lot of levels. I mean, politically, & sort of, socially, our, kind of, social backgrounds are quite similar in many ways, as well as our kind of artistic endeavors. So there were many, many things that sort of chimed in for me, and kind of made me feel very instinctive about playing him, and, and although, there was sort of a certain amount of impression involved, actually, there's a lot of myself in the role.

  Andy Serkis

  Mean, Roles, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• In high school, I came to realize I had a second-hand faith, derived from my parents and family background. I had no actual reasons for believing it.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Believe, School, Hands

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Most people might think that I've come from a musical background, but nobody in my family was in any kind of band or played anything. I just picked up music from breakdancing really, that's what got me to listen to music, and in general I was just a creative guy.

  Lunice

  Thinking, People, Creative

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Your background has a lot to do with your approach to movement.

  Cholly Atkins

  Movement, Approach

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• My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.

  John Prescott

  Class, Roots, Would Be

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• Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.

  Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

  Nice, Exercise, Corporations

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• Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.

  Lillian Bassman

  Long, Fabric, Way

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• They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had Stanley Something-or-other take in Sacramento in 1988 to serve as backgrounds to his cartoons. People don't draw it, all this crap, people don't focus attention on it because it's ugly, it's bleak, it's depressing... But, this is the world we live in; I wanted my work to reflect that, the background reality of urban life. )

  Robert Crumb

  Depressing, Reality, People

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