Backgrounds Quotes - Page 21

• I came from a background where I was very poor growing up but I have never known poverty. My parents worked hard and they went to bed hungry, but they fed us. Then my father became an ambassador, so I ended up being driven by chauffeurs. And then we became refugees. After that, I looked at it through this "glass" of to have and have not, and at the end of the day, who actually helps, who actually steps up, who is there for you.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Growing Up, Father, Glasses

  Source: time.com

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• [Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Doors, Work Out, Bills

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

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• Of course there's a value in a storyboard if you do a big - let's say an action movie and actors have to move and act in front of a green screen because entire backgrounds exploding and cars flying through there have to be created separately, and in this case you better make sure the actors are precisely placed and the background action is moving in a certain moment, for this type of film you would need a storyboard.

  Werner Herzog

  Moving, Car, Flying

  Source: collider.com

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• I think people will want to eat more street food, things that are more off the cuff, things with a food truck background that people have flipped into a restaurant. If you look at the new places opening, they're quite gutsy, earthy places.

  Tom Aikens

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• Most of the time I was in the background. I never played [the Virgin] Mary. I was always kind of the third angel.

  Felicity Jones

  Angel, Kind, Mary

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Rush Limbaugh

  Listening, Radio, Shows

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In fiction, it's as if you enter a dream world that you created, but your characters have their own free will. They don't do what you want them to do - they get into trouble, do drugs, fight over petty things, and do outrageous things that you wouldn't want your children to do. In other words, you can only provide the background, the seeds - in my case the background of the Vietnamese refugee.

  Andrew Lam

  Dream, Children, Character

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

  Paula Broadwell

  Careers, Mistress, Reducing

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I get to meet people from all walks of life, from all different countries, from different backgrounds.

  Junaid Jamshed

  Country, People, Different

  Source: irusa.org

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• It just occurred to me that there are some beautiful shots [in Rent Control] with the World Trade Center in the background.

  Brent Spiner

  Beautiful, World, Rent Control

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame science for that.

  Richard Dawkins

  Technology, Evil, Purpose

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• When I took over from my father, he came from the Southern Baptist background, and back 40-50 years ago, there was a lot more of that.I don't believe - maybe it was for a time. But I don't have it in my heart to condemn people. I'm there to encourage them.

  Joel Osteen

  Father, Believe, Heart

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 20, 2005.

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• It's highly likely that what you're doing is indeed influenced by your Jewish background.

  Michael Marmot

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• Those are values that help guide not just my family's Christian faith, but that of Jewish Americans, and Muslim Americans; nonbelievers and Americans of all backgrounds. And no one better embodies that spirit of service than the men and women who wear our country's uniform and their families.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Country, Men

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I got into cooking just by watching my mom and my aunts and my great-aunts and actually one of my cousins who has her own catering business in Atlanta, Georgia. So everybody around me really cooked and it was just all these different styles and backgrounds and cuisines of cooking that I found so interesting.

  Kelly Rowland

  Mom, Cousin, Aunt

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• You should know the ins and outs [of the marriage]. So it was nice to see a little bit of background.

  John Krasinski

  Nice, Littles, Should

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• There was a Yale even before Larry [Kramer] and I got there, and there were three designations of students: "white shoe," "brown shoe," and "black shoe." "White shoe" people were kind of the ur-preppies from high-class backgrounds. "Brown shoe" people were kind of the high school student-council presidents who were snatched up and brushed up a little bit to be sent out into the world. "Black shoe" people were beyond the pale. They were chemistry majors and things like that.

  Kevin Sessums

  School, Yale, Class

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• We differ [with Frank Moore Cross] simply because of our differing backgrounds.

  Hershel Shanks

  Crosses, Frank

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove the Bible, but it may illuminate it.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Giving, May, Archaeology

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Here is a guy who's supposed to be the Genghis Khan of the church, the pro-choice people hate him, and I don't know about his labor background so I figured there must be more to him, and there is. I wrote a book about [John Cardinal O'Connor].

  Nat Hentoff

  Hate, Book, People

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here.

  Noam Chomsky

  Europe, Institutions

  Source: www.iww.org

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• James Delaney as an individual is sort of like a grain of sand in an oyster who is irritating all of them. But for me he's a creature of the time, like the industrialists who started the Industrial Revolution who extricated themselves from their class and their background

  Steven Knight

  Oysters, Class, Revolution

  Source: deadline.com

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• I belong to a purely agricultural family from a rural background.

  Arfa Karim

  Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com

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• Different nations have different ways of forming their national identity. In America, for instance, the model was one of homogeneity breaking from different backgrounds, and the whole effort was to blend them all together like a wonderful making of a milkshake!

  Kabir Bedi

  America, Effort, Together

  Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

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• I built my own studio. I don't have the professional language to describe it because I'm not a videographer - but I'm a technician. So I get the camera, I get all the things that translate the camera to the computer, I set up a live session, I do the security on it, I set up a background so I can key it out, like newscasters do, and replace it with whatever I want - and I can be anywhere I need to be.

  Edward Snowden

  Keys, Want, Cameras

  Source: www.thenation.com

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