Quotes About Background

I think a lot of directors over the years have cast me because they see something of another generation in me: you know, certain people look like they've come from the 19th century. Because I have classical background I suppose that is more suitable to patriarchal roles and easily infuses them.

Like any black kid on a Sunday, your mom's cleaning the house to music. So that was, like, my very first memory. My mom having it in the background with incense lit.

I've sung background for a couple of bands.

Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.

That's my girl," murmurs Jack. So, it's a mutual admiration society. I'm not jealous. I'd just like to know a little background on their relationship. It's not easy being odd man out, especially on your home turf… Seriously, I'm not jealous. Okay, maybe just a little.

the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.

Absorption of Scripture is an essential counter-balance to the background noise of the world.

The issue becomes politically important because it is on everyone's mind, and the response of the political system is guided by the intensity of public sentiment. The availability cascade has now reset priorities. Other risks, and other ways that resources could be applied for the public good, all have faded into the background.

I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

He had begun to accept the background noise of the falls was no natural phenomenon but rather the thundering tears of gods.

No one can achieve profound characterization of a person (or place) without appealing to semi-unconscious associations. To sharpen or intensify a characterization, a writer makes use of metaphor and reinforcing background-weather, physical objects, animals- details which either mirror character or give characters something to react to...The game proves more dramatically than any argument can suggest the mysterious rightness of a good metaphor.

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

Persons curious in chronology may, if they like, work out from what they already know of the Wimsey family that the action of the book takes place in 1935; but if they do, they must not be querulously indignant because the King's Jubilee is not mentioned, or because I have arranged the weather and the moon's changes to suit my own fancy. For, however realistic the background, the novelist's only native country is Cloud-Cuckooland, where they do but jest, poison in jest: no offence in the world.

I vaguely remember my schooldays. They were what was going on in the background while I was trying to listen to the Beatles.

Your story, background, the music you listen to, the emotions you feel, your lifestyle, goals - all of this is your personal style.

Innovation will come from an ecosystem of pervasive computing so natural and all-encompassing that it disappears into the background.

I will say to all the fellas out there that, seriously, I am a setup. I'm just like rose petals. I'm like incense. I'm a background thing for you when you do your thing with your lady. I'm a friend, only assisting you in your lurve machinations. So have no fear of me, people.

My background with acting is deeply interwoven with my family life and my childhood. It's a 'Peter Pan'-like narrative, something that was golden but could also be a bit dubious.

Anybody doing philanthropy has to find something that appeals to them from their own personal background or from intellectual curiosity.

I've got a better background than anyone else who married into the royal family since the war, excepting Prince Philip.

I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.