Quotes About Background

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.

I am not a star kid, my parents are from Delhi, my dad manages a business, my mother is a professor, I have no filmi background, so if I don't have skills, I don't stand a chance in this industry full of star kids and people with influence.

I wanted to write a book about Hemingway's Paris, but a professor beat me to it. I suddenly realized other people were making a living off all the things that have to do with my family background so I've got one good story to tell and I'm telling it.

My background is as a computer scientist and programmer.

Coming from a programming background, I have a good sense of what's feasible and what's not feasible in a game.

I grew up in one of the most prolific high-school-wrestling programs in the country, and MMA fighters are more successful when they have that amateur-wrestling background.

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

If anything, who I am and my background helped propel me and helped me stand out.

I come from a prose background. I come from short story background, and that led me into novels.

I was asked to sing with Mavis Staples on a gospel compilation called 'Oh Happy Day.' And, you know, other than being totally intimidated at the prospect of singing with Mavis, I was honored. I don't really have much of a background in gospel music.

I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on.

In any novel I write, I have in my mind several things which happened in the protagonist's past which I never mention in the book.

I'd come from a background in New York of picketing and protesting.

Eventually she had decided to marry for background, and the young pagan from Asheville had gone through a spiritual crisis, joined the Catholic Church, and was now--Monsignor Darcy.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

I don't expect to ever put my family background to rest but I do expect to be taken seriously as a scholar, a writer and a Latin Americanist on my own terms, not defined through my parents and their history or politics.

I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.

I have enormous respect for people who come from a strong family background in Fine Gael.

I think the way country music is set up, we all came from a family background.

My family background was deeply Christian.

Given my family background, whenever, as a child, I was asked about becoming an actor, I used to answer in the negative.

My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.

The fascination for me writing about crime in Berlin was the idea that there was this much bigger crime taking place in the background, a fantastically epochal moment in history which is just going on. That just sort of makes the whole thing have a greater resonance.

There's probably been very few people in comedy that have a diversified background as I do.