Quotes About Background

I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.

What is the use of your pedigrees?

I create each character as an individual, coming from a certain place, sounding a certain way, having been introduced to things a certain way.

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

There are corporate private investigators, companies doing very forensic background checks on people. They buy data, they get their own data... They don't want their industry publicised.

I have a long history of looking at things from an investor's perspective by training and background.

I'm intrigued by my own schizoid background which involves Scotland, Ireland and London.

My mom is Filipino and my dad is half Russian and half Irish.

I'm Irish; I grew up in Ireland, and it's impossible to separate my background from who I am as a filmmaker.

I am half Bengali and half Irish by birth.

Cricket is a sport girls can play and be successful in irrespective of their background.

I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

I'm from an upper-middle class background. But because there was no one of my race where I grew up, I was very isolated. I felt different from everybody else.

I come from a background where money has never been an issue.

I am of Irish, Italian, and French Canadian descent.

I'm Italian.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

James Bridenstine is a climate denier with no scientific background who has made a career out of ignoring science.

I'm a Caucasian American Jew. These are all things that make up who I am.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

My background is part of my comedy. Your experiences are where the jokes come from.

Arno Penzias, the Nobel Prize–winning scientist who codiscovered the cosmic microwave background radiation that provided strong support for the Big Bang in the first place, states, "The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five Books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole.

You are only an extra in everyone else's play.