Quotes About Background

What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it.

Fear remained, a lurking thing, but movement and action and the exercise of the mind on the daily problems of existence pushed it into the background.

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

His view of the world featured swift disasters set against a background of lurking doom, my cooking did nothing to contradict it.

I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

If there's one single thing that I do every single time, it's require references and, ideally, at least one reference from every company they've worked at.

Over time, the repetition, Donald Trump's lies about election rigging, have become a form of background noise, more of the same. And this is a propaganda technique, whether Trump knows it or not.

He must have some Tartar in him, don't you think?" "I have no idea," Kate said. "Or is it 'Tatar.

You're really not right, are you? (Sin) With my background and genetic makeup, buddy, you're lucky I'm as normal as I am. (Kat)

Because we all come from different circumstances, our life experiences really color how we view things.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.

... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...

background extinction." In ordinary times—times here understood to mean whole geologic epochs—extinction takes place only very rarely, more rarely even than speciation, and it occurs at what's known as the background extinction rate. This rate varies from one group of organisms to another; often it's expressed in terms of extinctions per million species-years.

Given his own amorality, he could quite easily have come to terms with her criminal tendencies, but he could never, being the snob that he was, ever have overlooked her roots.

This is Lucy." She added, almost playfully, "Lucy comes from nothing." I took no offense, and really, I take none now. But I think: No one in this world comes from nothing.

An intelligent enemy always keeps in the background and remains hidden out of sight.

When I started writing, most of the police department in New York City, especially above the rank of detective, were Irish, Irish-American. I thought it would be more interesting... to use the actual ethnic background in New York City at the time.

As with all the other rappers I've worked with, Biggie and I shared common ground. Even though Biggie grew up in Brooklyn and I grew up in Chicago, we came from the same 'hood.

In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead of start with the rapture like the first one did.

My master's was in economics, and my Ph.D. was in philosophy, and I became a professor at USP. But after three years, I was invited to be secretary of finance for Sao Paulo mayor Marta Suplicy. They reached out to be because of my economics background.

When I play games, I'll make up little stories for just anything. It's almost the game of making up background stories for people you see on the street. You know what I mean? I wasn't exactly the popular kid in school growing up, so I found myself really observing people, and watching how they interact, and how they react to things.

I always think of my characters as alive human beings and try to generate questions around their life and understand their socio-political background. It was a lot of questioning and reading.