Backgrounds Quotes - Page 14

• But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

  Thomas Lynch

  Hobbies, Utterance, Way

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• I've sung background for a couple of bands.

  Randy Jackson

  Couple, Band

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• I think the painted backgrounds in animations are absolutely stunningly beautiful. There's something really special about this medium. I don't believe audiences have grown past it. I think what audiences love is to be entertained-thoroughly, deeply entertained, and that's what I've always set out to do.

  John Lasseter

  Beautiful, Believe, Past

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.

  William Friedkin

  Empty Rooms, Bullshit, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I love working with people who have had television experience because I think there's a real efficiency and methodology that comes from that background.

  Eric Bana

  Real, Thinking, People

  "The Other Boleyn Girl - Eric Bana interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I don't think that you necessarily need a certain type of background to take on roles. You see actors from very, very privileged backgrounds playing working class characters and vice-versa. I don't think your background limits you as to what you can do.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Character, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is about the choices these guys are faced with. In that way, I think this is a more personal story about their friendship, about the reaction that they have when they're essentially faced with death, to a certain degree.

  Elijah Wood

  War, Thinking, Radio News

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Unlike typical romantic comedies, Definitely Maybe is not formulaic or predictable and it spans a decade while being set against a political background. Also, the audience doesn't know who ends up with who until the very end, which makes it a sort of "romantic mystery comedy".

  Isla Fisher

  Political, Typical, Comedy

  "Definitely Maybe - Isla Fisher interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background check, which I want to see strengthened and expanded. I voted to ban certain types of assault weapons which are designed only to kill people.

  Bernie Sanders

  Gun, Assault Weapons, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When I was exposed to the history and the cultural background of why women whose husbands die, why they have to become ascetic or live a life that is completely deprived of emotional or social or cultural sustenance, I was really shocked.

  Deepa Mehta

  Husband, Emotional, Social

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I just don't ever want to play the girlfriend. You know, the supporting character in the background who just sort of comes in and goes, "Oh, shucks." It's just a boring character.

  Kristen Bell

  Girlfriend, Character, Play

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. November 12, 2008.

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

  Jarvis Cocker

  Creativity, Care

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

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• I was glad to have had some dance background because some of the dances are pretty wild.

  Piper Perabo

  Glad

  "Piper Perabo’s Culinary Affairs". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 16, 2012.

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• One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being something that keeps you company-background music, something that you have on while you're flipping through a magazine, cooking dinner, talking on the phone, putting the kids to bed.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Kids, Past, Cooking Dinner

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have my own charity organization in Berlin called Ruckenwind, which supports kids from - ya - not ideal backgrounds.

  Paul van Dyk

  Kids, Organization, Support

  "The Evolution of EDM Pioneer Paul van Dyk". Interview with Samantha Oltman, www.motherjones.com. January 23, 2012.

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• We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem about enlisting their interest in history. None. The problem is the teachers so often have no history in their background.

  David McCullough

  Teacher, Degrees, Generations

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• ...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says stupid things, then tries to claim he never said them, there's no rule against calling him a mendacious idiot - and no special qualifications required to make that pronouncement other than doing your own homework.Conversely, if someone without formal credentials consistently makes trenchant, insightful observations, he or she has earned the right to be taken seriously, regardless of background.

  Paul Krugman

  Stupid, Taken, Ideas

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• From my experience let me say this: in today's world it is no bad thing for a politician to have had the benefit of a scientific background. And not only politicians. Those who work in industry, in commerce, in investment. Indeed, so important has it become that I believe we are right to make science a compulsory subject for all schoolchildren.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Important, Benefits

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• The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life
  walking down a high-walled lane with people of our own kind, the
  same economic situation, the same national background and
  education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all
  humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our
  restricted and impoverished lives.

  Florence Luscomb

  Religious, Wall, Lying

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• My background are acting, film production, directing, and I studied them for many years. Keep in mind that you need many other skills when you are starting any film project related to real life.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Real, Years, Skills

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• This is not a matter of subjective theory, but of plain, historical fact. If there had never been a nation of Israel, there would have been no patriarchs, no prophets, no apostles, no Bible and no Saviour. In John 4:22, Jesus Himself summed all this up in one simple statement: "Salvation is from the Jews." Christians from all other racial backgrounds owe to the Jewish people a spiritual debt which can never be calculated.

  Derek Prince

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

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• The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable! I really thought that there was going be this moment when a ray of light from heaven would come pouring in, background music would start playing with angels singing, but none of that happens!

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Children, Angel, Light

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• For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication of copies, overwhelmingly plays the major role in shaping all or at least most of the contents of culture. Evolved domain-specific psychological dispositions, if there are any, should be at most a relatively minor factor that could be considered part of background conditions.

  Dan Sperber

  Play, Copying, Culture

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• I wrote lots of scripts that never got made and they were terrible. I thought they were good at the time. You can't write two scripts and expect your career to take off. Keep writing. Be you. Be original. A lot of people go for a genre, which is fine if you can do that really well, but we all have such layered histories. We all come from a unique background. Write about your past, write about you. Or make stuff up, but make it about something that really matters.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Writing, Unique, Past

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• During the election people from visible minorities stood as candidates on both the left and the right. And only one African woman was elected in a very left-wing constituency in Paris. The French don't seem to be ready to elect people from a visible minority. So maybe this society is not ready to have a woman from a foreign background in this important post. That really surprised us, because we thought we had evolved.

  Patrick Gaubert

  Wings, Paris, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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