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Dance is in my background. -- Rutina Wesley
The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative. -- Ken Livingstone
With my background, I came out of the theater. -- Joe Morton
Bluegrass is really a big part of my background. -- Travis Tritt
Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef. -- Jose Garces
I love folk; that's a big part of my background. -- Amy Lee
My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background. -- Tommy Wiseau
Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background. -- Janel Parrish
You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years. -- Elizabeth Emken
Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background. -- Ted Cruz
I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that. -- Paul Rudd
I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background. -- Jodie Foster
I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture. -- Danny Boyle
Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist. -- Cameron Russell
Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors. -- Ridley Scott
It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. -- David Chalmers
With my background and genetic makeup,buddy, you're lucky I'm as normal as I am. (Katra Agrotera) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing. -- Joseph Stefano
I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed -- Mario Lopez
I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed. -- Mario Lopez
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background. -- V. S. Naipaul
I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy. -- Gabby Douglas
Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor. -- Casey Kasem
I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics. -- James Heckman
I'm a boys' girl! I come from an army background and I haven't known what being a 'good Indian girl' means. -- Anushka Sharma
Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background prepared me for the music. -- Zarin Mehta
In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy. -- Charlie Brooker
Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport. -- David Millar
I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage. -- Tommy Wiseau
Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots. -- Aretha Franklin
Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college. -- Dave Eggers
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
I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit even today. -- Esha Gupta
Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring. -- Patricia Polacco
I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there. -- Victoria Chang
People know my background and for people who need an improviser, I'm one of the people they think to use if I'm appropriate for the part. -- Jason Mantzoukas
My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now. -- John Prescott
From my background in travel at HotWire and Expedia, the metrics that TaskRabbit is seeing are more than double at what I saw at both those companies. -- Leah Busque
Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself. -- Daniel Barber
Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes. -- Sasha Alexander
People say to me that I'm a role model in technology, but it makes me laugh, because I'm not a technologist, I'm a journalist - that's my background. -- Sue Gardner
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
My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me. -- Gad Elmaleh
A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams. -- Katy Mixon
I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop. -- Kid Rock
I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing. -- Robert Sheckley
I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone. -- Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear that biological evolution could not have occurred. -- Richard Smalley
I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities. -- Julie Andrews
My dad is from India, my mom is from Russia. Fortunately, we moved a lot. I went to a lot of different schools and completely different cultures, so that's my background. -- Annet Mahendru
The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
My dad is from India, my mom is from Russia. Fortunately, we moved a lot. I went to a lot of different schools and completely different cultures, so thats my background. -- Annet Mahendru
It's like in most parts of America, where there was industry and there is no longer; there is cynicism mixed with sarcasm and some optimism. That's how my background influenced my comedy. -- Jim Gaffigan
I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool. -- Adam Brody
My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there. -- Emeril Lagasse
It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it. -- Ben McKenzie
I really thought, with my background growing up, and my service, and all that, I thought it would be enough for the presidency. But... It sure was enough when I ran for Congress. -- Bob Dole
I grew up in music theater playing to the audience - singing and dancing and showing off. That's really my background. But the camera's different. I think I'm more at home on stage. -- Christopher Walken
It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it. -- Ben McKenzie
There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
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
The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult. -- Philip Warren Anderson
I like to invest in companies where I can really add value from my experience, network, etc., so checking out my portfolio of other investments, and my background, will generally give some guidance there. -- David S. Rose
When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the focal points of the campaign, and, in fact, my opponent attacked me for it. -- Mark Takano
A generation earlier, I think that somebody from my background probably would not have felt fully comfortable at a college like Princeton. But, by the time I graduated from high school, things had changed. -- Samuel Alito
For people who aren't familiar with my background, I didn't graduate high school. My career high salary was about $200,000. My last position was about $122,000. For a guy without a high school diploma, that's pretty good. -- Edward Snowden
A lot of my background is in theatre, so when you're on location, and the wind is really blowing, it's raining, and you've got mud all over you, it really keeps you on your toes. -- Kimberley Nixon
The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium. -- Matt LeBlanc
Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene. -- Yayoi Kusama
As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans. -- Xavier Becerra
I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of being on a stage and having a love for performing from a young age. -- Caroline Sunshine
No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a comic, I studied theater and my career when I started was a lot of dramatic stuff. -- Paul Rudd
I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc. -- Rob James-Collier
Because of the nature of my background in modeling, I'm really used to using the best products around. And I just wanted to offer the same sort of high quality products to my customers. I think they deserve it. -- Kam Williams
I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music - hip-hop, and just music, period. 'Cause I come from hip-hop, that's my background, but I'm not gonna let that limit me from where I can go. -- Nayvadius Cash
I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it. -- David Bowie
As an actor, my background is in the theater and I feel that my strong suit is period work, but I actually didn't do much of it at all, until the last three or four years. I'm loving it! -- Colm Meaney
My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent. -- Frank Abagnale
People hear me talk and they know my background and they immediately stereotype me as being a real, real country guy, and that's the right stereotype. But you also want people to know you're a little broader than that, too. -- Luke Bryan
I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels. -- Carlos Santana
I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress. -- Jon Runyan
I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook. -- Clara Shih
I had always sort of done dramatic things, and I love them; it's my background. But when I think about 'Fresh Meat,' I just think about the cast and the crew that we had... we just had a great time. -- Kimberley Nixon
For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity. -- Chad Hugo
I actually don't see that strong of a connection between my background as a rock 'n roller and my early films. In a way I think your musical identity in film work is determined by the jobs that come your way. -- Cliff Martinez
The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic. -- Dominic Chianese
This book [Dreams from My Father] was more of a reflection on my public life, now as a U.S. senator and before that as a state senator; how my perspectives around the issues of the day are shaped by my background. -- Barack Obama
There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues. -- Ruth Brown
I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. -- Salma Hayek
See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers. -- John Thomas Sladek
See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers. -- John Thomas Sladek
I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I was a potter for a number of years and earned a BFA in art before going to graduate school for creative writing. -- Anna Journey
So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house. -- Petra Stunt
Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone. -- Cherie Blair
The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of tribes that can never understand each other, but that we're, rather, one common humanity that can meet and learn and love each other. -- Barack Obama
I know something about the civilization of China, with my background, obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But that's about all. And I've traveled all over the world, and for a long time I didn't know very much about it, really. -- I. M. Pei
I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever. -- Dambisa Moyo
I tell a lot of interesting stories and talk about my background and have a lot of fun. We have a lot of pictures. They actually came to my house and shot me painting my toenails and doing dishes. But I never really do the dishes.. -- Carmen Electra
Being involved with Oxfam has really opened my eyes to the world at large and the suffering of others. But my background and my life experience are what have allowed me to understand how interconnected we all are. I believe one person suffering reverberates throughout the world. -- Joy Bryant
Coming from a filmy background, I have seen everything growing up, but even at that point of time, it never really fascinated me. I did not like going to my dad's shoots. We were taught not to get carried away with it from a very young age. -- Sonakshi Sinha
I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be. -- Rory McIlroy
I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots... I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be. -- Rory McIlroy
As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too. -- Richie Sambora
When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect. -- Florence Welch
I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they could be my people. -- James A. Michener
Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.' -- Adhir Kalyan
They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didn't know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative. -- Jimmy Carter
The fact was that I had always been considered a leader in my scholastic career. It just never dawned on me that this was any kind of preparation for the business world. Like most young women of my background and education, I always performed on demand and never anything else. -- Geraldine Stutz
I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, since I think I applied to 300 jobs and didn't get any of them, so I decided that I would stay in school and go to Harvard Business school, and that's my background. -- Hamilton E. James
My background is Scottish. -- Melissa George
My background is in health care. -- Bobby Jindal
My family background was deeply Christian. -- Abbe Pierre
My background was in performing originally. -- Cy Coleman
My background is in improv and writing. -- Paul Scheer
My background is degradation and sloth, mostly. -- Larry David
My martial arts background is Tae Kwon Do. -- Will Yun Lee
I never want to hide my wrestling background. -- Chris Jericho
I don't know much about my biological background. -- Dan Stevens
My education and background thoroughly inform my writing. -- David Brin

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