Quotes About Background

Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema.

Another part of my background was that I was in film school.

I came out of a sort of experimental background, and I didn't ever really expect - or even desire - a career as a feature filmmaker.

The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!

Our vulnerability is that both blacks and whites can use our impossible racial authenticity against us. Both races can throw up our mixed background to challenge our authority to speak.

I'm used to being a supporting player in the background. All I ever wanted, at the very most, was to have a small part in something where people were like, 'Oh, right, that one guy, whoever he is, was pretty good in that.' That's all I ever really strived for or expected.

That's where my amateur background helps. You step on a scale, you fight whoever they tell you to fight.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion.

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been thirty-one. Then there was my twin brother and my sister. We had two aunts as well, my father's sisters. But the immediate family consisted of my mother, my brother, my sister, and me.

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush.

With my first few books, I was aiming at an academic audience, basically, to get tenure. You can presuppose a certain amount of knowledge; you can expect that there is this common background.

When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the country into the contemporary art world. So that's how I came up with the term 'superflat.'

Americans of all political background overwhelmingly support term limits, yet term limits have floundered in Congress.

Pressure is a terminology that doesn't align with my life. Where I come from, the pressures are totally different.

Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.

I don't come from a comedy background or a stand-up background, but I think that sometimes there's a misconception that an actor who works primarily in comedy is a comedian. There's nothing wrong with being a comedian, but I'm absolutely not that. I can't think of anything more terrifying than doing stand-up!

On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

A musician's true talent is only tested through background music.

Everything having to do with President Trump and Russia, whether it is Mr. Trump's demand for an investigation into the investigation by the special counsel Robert Mueller, or whether Mr. Trump will testify, requires an answer to one essential background question: Can Mr. Mueller seek to indict the president?