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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life. -- Tamara Ecclestone
Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop. -- Brad Pitt
Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars. -- Steven Rattner
My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road. -- Eric Stonestreet
I love the idea of a beautiful neighborhood that represents the very best of American values, but also as a fun backdrop to some darker, deliciously sneaky things going on in people's lives. -- Marc Cherry
I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us. -- David Eagleman
My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop for Larry King's TV show. There's an 'I-want-to-do-all-things-at-once' kind of theme to it. -- Ronan Farrow
Do I have to see movies and television about the English throne or the Holocaust every year? There are multiple multi-million dollar movies with the same backdrop. But our Holocaust - meaning Latino - aren't ever told. -- Esai Morales
Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next? -- J. G. Ballard
I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer. -- Mae Jemison
The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century, it was solemnly reaffirmed at the Council of Trent against the backdrop of our justification in Christ. -- Pope Benedict XVI
It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. I look forward to exploring family entertainment once again and examining the specifics of our day-to-day lives against the backdrop of an extraordinary adventure. -- Jon Favreau
The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program content is seen increasingly as a mere backdrop on which ads are posted like billboards on a fence. -- Tom Shales
To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama. -- Junichiro Koizumi
It's always more interesting to make a movie about what is relevant in your society. What's the political global backdrop? What are our threats? What are we vulnerable to? Because that's what an audience vibes on - that is what people are interested in, universally. -- Gerard Butler
Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music. -- John Lydon
I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters. -- Stieg Larsson
I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat all of the artists that I work with, like, you know, the way da Vinci was looking at Mona Lisa, you know, there's an interesting backdrop. -- Pharrell Williams
I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision. -- Lydia Lunch
If I could sum up 'Shadow's Claim' in six words: cage fights with hot alpha males. Seriously, though, while the fights are the backdrop for Trehan and Bettina's love story, the main emphasis is on how Trehan - a pitiless master assassin - wages the ultimate battle to win her heart. -- Kresley Cole
I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of the best. The horrors of war serve as a backdrop to a love affair that spans a lifetime, and that love story stayed with me long after I put down the book. -- Lauren Weisberger
All In' is like the Giants motto, so I kind of took that, and I kind of used New York as the backdrop - how diehard New Yorkers are for their team. Me being a New Yorker, I just had to show my love for the city as well as my love for the New York Giants. -- Travie McCoy
I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years. -- Walter Dean Myers
Rocky' is a movie that just happens to be about boxing. It's really about characters and story lines and relationships and all those things, and the backdrop is boxing. You can go back and watch the final fight in 'Rocky' a thousand times. If you dig that movie, if you like the characters, you'll watch the whole movie over and over. -- Triple H
Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it. -- Nate Berkus
Every day life must always be lived against the backdrop of eternity. -- Tim Kimmel
Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played. -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music. -- Amy Grant
Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos. -- Philip Zimbardo
Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop. -- Jakob Nielsen
They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert. -- Victor Borge
... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution. -- Jeanine Basinger
A conflagration always made such a nice backdrop to a battle. Fire made everything so much more joyously apocalyptic. -- Stuart Hill
Setting is the bedrock of your story. If you choose a real-world backdrop, be certain you get your facts straight. -- Lynn Flewelling
I'd like to change the depictions of life, love, and adventure under what's known as the typical, overused backdrop of Hollywood. -- Romany Malco
If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment. -- Kevin Costner
In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action. -- Paul Kingsnorth
Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system. -- Yuri Lotman
As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films. -- Alexander Payne
I don't wanna be a Twinkling Star or a Radiant Moon or a Shining Sun. Just to be a Spectacular Sky in their backdrop. -- Sajil Chembil
Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey -- Andy Partridge
The breathtaking inanity of the [school] Board's decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial. -- John E. Jones III
If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for resisting any topside advances. -- Craig Ferguson
Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we must tell. -- Kate Atkinson
Now, because of this big backdrop that we've given ourselves, these little personal, human details take on a whole new context and give us opportunities for comedy. -- Jason Winer
We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop. -- Bryant Gumbel
As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military and soldiers has risen. -- Henry Giroux
Today, I would describe a preistess as a woman who lives in two worlds at once, who perceives life on earth against a backdrop of a vast, timeless, reality. -- Jalaja Bonheim
If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop. -- Leo Buscaglia
It is about time that, atheist or no, we call a spade a spade, and outed lies, and suspicious statements are placed against the backdrop of a linguistic litmus test. -- Leviak B. Kelly
With the backdrop of The Salvation Army's century and a half of service to the world's poor, these songs and reflections are born of meaningful engagement with a living Gospel -- Sara Groves
With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region. -- Victor Ponta
We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of ...a much more integrative experience. -- Simon McBurney
When State Way Gardens and The Robert Taylor Homes were being torn down, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to use that as a backdrop for the development of a super hero narrative. -- Kerry James Marshall
If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian. -- Ricky Gervais
Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color. -- Francis Chan
I think main storylines are what always intrigued me, with those that were the relationships between the characters against whatever backdrop, whether it was in an ordinary universe or a universe in the future. -- John Noble
Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and explores its implications without attempting to predict how the thing might actual work. -- Edward M. Lerner

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