Backgrounds Quotes - Page 20

• My mother didn't feel very satisfied about the English background that I had received in the public schools in Littleton. So, she insisted that I take a year under the high school level. So, I was in boarding school nine years.

  Ella Baker

  Mother, School, Years

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• In your short stay in Atlanta, I'm sure you saw that there was great competition between Martin's [Luther King] father and John Wesley Dobbs in terms of family status. You know, the bragging about whose child got a master's degree first and whose child, maybe, was the first Ph.D. Out of a background like that, the business of becoming a chairman of an important movement or a movement that symbolizes a certain amount of prestige is something you don't resist easily.

  Ella Baker

  Kings, Children, Father

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• I never played a rich man, I never played a prince. And to play a sailor or longshoreman you had to make your dance more eclectic and varied, but still keep it indigenous to your nationality, upbringing, and background.

  Gene Kelly

  Men, Play, Sailor

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've had the chance to work with some really good filmmakers. It's put me in a situation where I've been surrounded by great actors, and for me it's been a lot about standing in the background and watching people work.

  Alicia Vikander

  People, Actors, Chance

  "Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender on The Light Between Oceans". Interview with Joe McGovern, ew.com. September 2, 2016.

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• Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.

  Marc Guggenheim

  Unlocking, Problem, Always Working

  "I'm Marc Guggenheim, Writer and Executive Producer of Arrow, and This Is How I Work". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. August 31, 2016.

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• I have a cultural background that's shaped in England, France and Germany. Bringing that in is nice, in terms of how an actor plays a role or speaks in an interview.

  Richard Sammel

  Nice, Play, Germany

  Source: collider.com

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• There are personality traits, or baggage from their backgrounds, goals that they have and the first thing I need to do is understand and then acknowledge and then accept those properties. That's kind of the baseline requirement to have a productive relationship.

  Ian Bogost

  Goal, Personality, Needs

  Source: app.longform.org

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• The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to exist between the figure and the background.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Fighting, Keys, Design

  "'I try to create a place of disorientation' - interview with Kehinde Wiley". Interview With Anna Savitskaya, artdependence.com. February 16, 2015.

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• Unlike the background in many of the paintings that I was inspired by or paintings that I borrowed poses from - the great European paintings of the past - the background in my work does not play a passive role.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Past, Play, Doe

  "'I try to create a place of disorientation' - interview with Kehinde Wiley". Interview With Anna Savitskaya, artdependence.com. February 16, 2015.

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• It's often considered elitist to say that well maybe voters are uninformed and that they should know more before they cast their votes. It's strange to say that because it's also elitist to say that to run a radio station requires skill or to be a plumber requires skill and background knowledge.

  Jason Brennan

  Running, Skills, Radio

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• As I got older, then my particular ambitions started cohering around creating a world in which people of different races or backgrounds or faiths can recognize each other's humanity, or creating a world in which every kid, regardless of their background, can strive and achieve and fulfill their potential.

  Barack Obama

  Ambition, Kids, Race

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Right now - and this is something Donald [Trump] has supported, along with the gun lobby - right now, we've got too many military- style weapons on the streets. In a lot of places, our police are outgunned. We need comprehensive background checks, and we need to keep guns out of the hands of those who will do harm.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Gun, Hands

  Source: time.com

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• My background is full of pain. My mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and our whole family was killed off. Then early on your father leaves and all you've got is your mother, and I was an only child. Then you come to a new country and I can't speak English.

  Gene Simmons

  Country, Mother, Children

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• The information hack contains facts discovered by the FBI in doing background checks for people seeking positions with the federal government. It's a treasure trove which can easily be used for blackmail and other reasons by the enemy.

  Donald Trump

  Government, People, Enemy

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2016.

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• People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

  Petra Haden

  Pages Turning, People, Sound

  Source: therumpus.net

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• That's the most important thing, to get along with people. When you feel like you click with them. That's more important even then what their background is or what they've done before, how good they are, how new they are or whatever. All that stuff is really secondary to just getting along with the person.

  Black Francis

  People, Important, Done

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I want to make sure that I represent a variety of backgrounds and that represents the reality out here in the world.

  Vijay Iyer

  Reality, World, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I live in New York, and Clara lives in Recife. The character is Brazilian, and as I read the script, I felt like Kleber [Mendonca] had been spying on me in order to create this role [in Aquarius]. Clara and I have different backgrounds. I come from an intuitive world, and she's an academic, but when we got together, we really became one. There are many times when I'm watching the film where Clara will say something, and I will find myself agreeing with her. It was the first time that I had this weird sensation that the character I played is so me, but yet it's so her.

  Sonia Braga

  New York, Character, Aquarius

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• In addition, black folks need to attend green conferences, too. We just self-segregate and don't go. They might even waive your fee if you apply on a diversity basis, because they'd be so shocked to see somebody from a different background wanting to be a part of the green movement.

  Van Jones

  Self, Diversity, Black

  Source: aalbc.com

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• In terms of what Hillary Clinton, who's running for president, thinks about Catholics and the value more broadly of having a faith background, I can tell you she views at it as a plus, just as she views her own Methodism as a plus.

  Tim Kaine

  Running, Thinking, Views

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• [Donald Trump] can`t reach out and push off at the same time when he says - he says we want the ban on assault weapons, because they`re so very dangerous, and background checks on guns, given the level of violence in the country, he says he wants more guns to make us more secure.

  Jesse Jackson

  Country, Gun, Assault Weapons

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I had a very colorless background, and when I left Ohio and moved to England, nobody knew who I was and I had a real freedom. I could be free to experiment and experience things and I liked that a lot.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Real, Ohio, England

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes I highjack memories. Sometimes I switch them around. Sometimes they're just in the background, like some little bass note. Those things have carried me through, especially when I first started writing. They're still there, but more in the distance these days.

  Paul Beatty

  Memories, Distance, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Well, it's not all the same, but there are a lot of parallels. I'm not sure how to answer [on psychology background], but I think when I was studying psychology I had a professor and a friend who would talk about "process" all the time. Your process, his process, the group's process. There's some carryover from that discussion to my creative work.

  Paul Beatty

  Thinking, Creative, Psychology

  "Paul Beatty: I See You". Interview With Chris Paul Wolfe, www.guernicamag.com. October 27, 2016.

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• I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and languages, I'm always analyzing things.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, Literature, Want

  Source: dilanka.cc

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