Backgrounds Quotes - Page 34

• Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Writing, Character, World

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• When a reporter files a piece about Republican that slams Republican or law enforcement or hypes up climate change, there's no attempt to expose their bias, to look at their background. And then when you find out later that they usually have a bias.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Law, Hype, Climate

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• See beauty in those unexpected places. (she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.) See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience. (she steered clear of the traffic jam and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.) She embraces the undeclared possibility in what seems like just another ordinary day. (her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Cancer, Opportunity, Ordinary Days

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• There are so many stars shining in the sky, so many beautiful things winking at you, but when Venus comes out, all the others are waned, they are pushed to the background.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Stars, Science

  Play "Galileo Galilei" (2001), as quoted in "Venus Transit Tue June 5 - Get Ready", www.dailykos.com. May 29, 2012.

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• My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

  Zachary Levi

  Musical, Theater, Whole Life

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.

  David Millar

  Sports, Survival, Awful

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• I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.

  Debi Mazar

  Running, Humble, Path

  "Mazar helps Los Angeles homeless get back on their feet". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 12, 2010.

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• My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

  Denise Mina

  Class, Parent, Odd

  "Murder she wrote - and plenty of it: Denise Mina on her career". Interview with Peter Guttridge, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.

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• I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.

  Denise Mina

  People, Feminism, Phds

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• My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.

  Allison Williams

  Character, Animal, Men

  "‘Girls’ Star Allison Williams On Her Masturbation Scene, Lena Dunham And More". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2012.

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• I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.

  Kaya Scodelario

  People, Age, Actors

  "FUTURES: ‘Wuthering Heights’ Breakout Kaya Scodelario On Working For Andrea Arnold and Breaking Boundaries With ‘Skins’". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. October 5, 2012.

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• The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Scott O'Dell established this award to encourage other writers--particularly new authors--to focus on historical fiction. He hoped in this way to increase the interest of young readers in the historical background that has helped to shape their country and their world.

  Scott O'Dell

  Country, Children, Book

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• The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before. Creation brings satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take organized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Hands, Soul, Wish

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• Coming from a technology background, I mostly worked behind the scenes or let the men take the lead. I had to learn to assert myself, communicate and be heard. I made sure that once I had my voice, I spoke for those who didn't - especially women.

  Regina Agyare

  Technology, Men, Voice

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• You may be Catholic or Protestant or Buddhist or Baptist or Muslim or Mormon or Jewish or Jain, or you have no religion at all. I'm not interested in your religious background. Because God did not create the universe for us to have religion. He came for us to have a relationship with him.

  Rick Warren

  Religious, Buddhist, Catholic

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• A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

  Tomas Transtromer

  Shadow, Photograph, Bigger

  "Following Words Through a Labyrinth" by David Orr, www.nytimes.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors

  Michael Bassey

  Progress, Colour, Endowment

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• What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

  Jimmy Wales

  Media, Mainstream, Materials

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• The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

  Rob Paulsen

  Voice, Creative, Fearless

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• American field players would really help themselves if they were exposed to a steady stream of box experience. Box lacrosse is an extremely valuable background for a young player, we need to incorporate more of the indoor skills in to the field game. It is almost a requirement to have a top player with indoor experience on your roster right now.

  Dom Starsia

  Player, Games, Skills

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• To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

  Ken Adam

  Successful, Ego, Trying

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• Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

  Peter Bergen

  Successful, Administration, Economics

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• My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.

  Cara Castronuova

  Athlete, Different, Fighter

  "'Biggest Loser': Meet the mystery trainers!". Interview with Dan Snierson, ew.com. January 18, 2011.

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• My background was in performing originally.

  Cy Coleman

  Performing

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• I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.

  Ann Dowd

  Careers, Long, Theatre

  "Interview with Ann Dowd, Star of ‘Compliance’". www.indiewire.com. August 17, 2012.

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