Backgrounds Quotes - Page 36

But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

Francisco Goya

Nature, Eye, Details

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Many of the Kiwis appearing in powerful business circles around the world come from accounting backgrounds. Yet often people have preset ideas of how an accountant walks, talks, smells - although not in the business community. For me it is a career that offers a lot of variety and challenges and I love it.

Philip Roth

Powerful, Circles, Careers

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A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Boredom, Anxiety, Typical

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It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their figures. You know the story of Vandyke brought to Rubens with this recommendation: 'He already knows how to paint a background.' 'That is more than I can do!' was the reply.

William Morris Hunt

Venture, Matter, Stories

William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns

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I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a very personal level, My own career is an example of the universal power of music, especially the power of Hip Hop, to bring people of different backgrounds together for a common purpose. I hope that my commitment to the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee will encourage all music lovers - both amateurs and professionals - to get involved with the Music Days performance network and contribute to the 'Harmony For Humanity' e-Stage.

Russell Simmons

Commitment, Careers, Common Purpose

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I think ties are great and Kathy Bates is an actress whose work I've admired tremendously over many years, and I feel a certain kinship with her, we both came from an extensive theater background.

Joan Allen

Thinking, Ties, Years

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Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.

John Amos

Writing, Ideas, Want

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In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My Second City (improvisation) background comes in very handy for accent and body posture.

Valerie Harper

Character, Cities, Body

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Doing a background check is still a very manual process, because the government agencies that create the records are largely paper-based systems. I'm not going to deny that there are errors, because in any system that involves human beings or technology, there are going to be errors.

James Lee

Technology, Errors, Agency

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It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.

Billy Higgins

Care, Jazz, I Don't Care

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The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

Edmond Jabes

Book, Writing, Unbearable

Edmond Jabès (1993). “The Book of Margins”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.

Robert Genn

Cutting, Construction, Objects

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Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground... there shouldn't be any 'ideas' visible.

Mu Xin

Art, Distance, Ideas

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You should not be hovering in the background, inflating the drama. Simply envelop him in love and affection and let him know that you will support his efforts, whatever they are.

Amy Dickinson

Women, Drama, Support

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I felt like I could be a good example that you don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things. In fact, I truly believe that a lot of people who do great things, many of them have come from harder backgrounds.

Sara McMann

Believe, Doors, Order

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I was born in New York but as a baby moved to Venezuela and Argentina. I've also lived in Denmark, where my father's from. I've traveled a lot, and having that sort of background probably increased the chance that I was going to remain curious as an adult about people who are different.

Viggo Mortensen

Baby, New York, Father

"Viggo Mortensen, Man of the World". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2015.

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Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be a benefit.

Viggo Mortensen

Water, Feelings, Benefits

"Viggo Mortensen, Man of the World". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2015.

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In boxing, where most of the guys are from lower-class backgrounds and have darker skin than most of the fans, one might fear that the athletes are being exploited. But that narrative doesn't hold up very well in the world of MMA, where 99 percent of fighters are amateurs who will never earn a dime. They aren't seeking fame and fortune. For the most part, these guys are fighting because they want to and because it gives them an opportunity to strive for something big in their lives. It gives them a chance to become their best selves.

Jonathan Gottschall

Athlete, Fighting, Opportunity

"A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.

Patrick Stewart

Training, Acting, Larger Than Life

"Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart on Waiting For Godot". Interview with Dominic Cavendish, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 31, 2009.

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I realize that people won't even download the entire album and might just download a song or two and put it in a playlist for a workout or in the background while people do dishes. That's fine and I can't dictate how people listen to my music, but I structure records the way I listen to records.

Mikal Cronin

Song, Workout, Two

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have more economic and racial segregation, places with more income inequality.

Gwen Ifill

Kids, Income, Segregation

Source: www.pbs.org

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As far as music being something that's not background, it doesn't mean that it's loud, it means that it's instantly something to dwell on and process and swallow and regurgitate.

Youth Lagoon

Mean, Process, Loud

Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. January 23, 2013.

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My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding Story' on TLC always came on, and I'd get irritated that the story of two people making a lifelong commitment to each other could be encapsulated in a half-hour show about the party they throw.

Jessica Valenti

Party, Commitment, College

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I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.

Tommy Wiseau

Years, Acting, Stage Actors

"Conversations with a Cult (Film) Director Tommy Wiseau". Interview with Eric Ravenscraft, gawker.com. August 19, 2010.

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When I want to choose to work with someone, you know, I definitely have to do some research on their background and how they were raised as people.

Theophilus London

People, Research, Want

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