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You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes. -- Tom Wolfe
No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams. -- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
There is nothing in your background that inherently holds you back or means you can't achieve what others can achieve. You are the master of your own fate, and if you work hard, you can do what you want. -- Nicola Sturgeon
Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it. -- Gloria Steinem
Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self. -- Matt Tong
You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience. -- David Carson
I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it. -- Joel Coen
It's more fun in a way to do ensemble scenes, where you know your background, you know the scene, but you can't prepare because someone else is going to say something that is going to lead you off -- Fred Willard
Everybody when you propose and talk about putting your life together, the ultimate goal is the same. I think sometimes people forget your background and however you were raised. You want to have a different route to get to that goal. -- Gabrielle Dennis
I don't think that you necessarily need a certain type of background to take on roles. You see actors from very, very privileged backgrounds playing working class characters and vice-versa. I don't think your background limits you as to what you can do. -- Daniel Radcliffe
Right out of the University of California I had passed the bar, but Colorado was one of those places where anybody could come and nobody would ask what your background was or how long you had been here. So I took to the place with a liking. -- Richard Lamm
As we get more technically driven, the importance of people becomes more than it's ever been before. You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience. -- David Carson
Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that. -- Sean Connery
The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional. -- Javier Bardem
I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity. -- Dexter Fletcher
I did a lot of short films online, so I come from that background where a lot of people see your stuff. -- Ben Schwartz
The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black. -- Neneh Cherry
When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that. -- Barbara Bush
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
It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission. -- Sally Ride
In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book. -- Sophia Bush
SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status. -- William H. McRaven
If anyone tells you that you're too old to be an entrepreneur or that you have the wrong background, don't listen to them. Go with your gut instincts and pursue your passions. -- Vivek Wadhwa
I came from a dance background, so that's what I did my whole teenage years. I was at the dance studio a lot. It just becomes your social scene and part of your life. -- Felicia Day
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse. -- Leonard Cohen
Even if you don't state your ethnic background anywhere on LinkedIn or whether you are married with children, a scan of your photos and other people's photos featuring you will make it far easier to deduce. -- Jan Chipchase
It's easy enough to foist your music collection on your kids. Lectures are not required; you just play the stuff while they are prisoner in the back seat on a long drive, or softly in the background while eating dinner. -- Dean Wareham
Don't set pen to paper until you know your main characters inside out. Create files detailing their appearances, likes, dislikes, and personal background. You may not use all the information, but it is a crucial step in planning your story. -- Jojo Moyes
Your life can become the background for the art you create. -- Alicia Keys
You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering. -- Nhat Hanh
Your background has a lot to do with your approach to movement. -- Cholly Atkins
Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems. -- Marc Guggenheim
It's highly likely that what you're doing is indeed influenced by your Jewish background. -- Michael Marmot
Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources. -- Jane Brody
Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors -- Michael Bassey
When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of. -- Idris Elba
Odd that I couldn't catch any of your dream," Bones went on. "Normally your dreams are like background music to me. -- Jeaniene Frost
O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul. -- Spencer W. Kimball
Giving is a universal opportunity. Regardless of your age, profession, religion, income bracket, and background, you have the capacity to create change. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
We have a man [Donald Trump] who judges people based on their performance regardless of your gender, race, your ethnic or religious background. -- Chris Christie
I come from a martial arts background so kicking and punching and using your hands and your feet is more of the art that I was taught. -- Katheryn Winnick
Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise. -- George Mason
Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody. -- Max Lucado

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