Quotes About Background

When a person speculates about my identity, it reveals something about their own background and preferences. If the canvas is blank; the only thing people can see on its surface is themselves.

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.

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

I can't stand recipes that don't have background.

Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.

I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.

There's certain countries that you can't get in if you've got a criminal background record. There's certain jobs in the States that you can't get because you've got a criminal background record. That follows you the rest of your life... and that's something you have to deal with the rest of your life.

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

I need quiet when I'm recording because I don't want any noise in the background.

Most actors I know come from a screwed up background, so it makes sense that if you can walk on to a space and recreate your reality, then that's the place that will become very dear.

My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.

If you go into a studio without a set effectively, you've got a blue screen. As a DP you have to light it of what you think it should look like. You don't have any reference of what the background looks like. You might have some concepts, but effectively you're lighting it as what you think it should look like.

My background is interesting in that I was a sexual harassment attorney before I ever got into news. I think I had a really broad understanding of exactly how the legal framework works, how HR works, all those kinds of things.

Coming from bluegrass background, I totally understand family harmonies.

There are people who are hating you more because of where you are coming from. People like the 'he comes from nothing and made it to F1' story. I know that, but I just do my thing; I focus on my job.

My background is in health care.

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.

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.

What has Dianne Feinstein done... I'll put my legislative background up against hers any day.

I can't hide where I grew up or the flavors I grew up on.

The dull rhythmic tramp of the soldiers' boots formed the background to Goldstein's bleating voice.

The slum, with its dirt and its queer lives, was first an object-lesson in poverty, and then the background of my own experiences.

I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.