Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.
There was an electric buzzing sound that was constantly on, acting as background music like a million cicadas in the forest. A constant white noise.
I vaguely remember my schooldays. They were what was going on in the background while I was trying to listen to the Beatles.
You've got to step up, Emme. They need to hear your voice, hear you. You're better than being stuck in the background.
Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions, and even through their unity, spawn true American greatness.
As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.
I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.
I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire.
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.
I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.
I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background.
When I was very young, my background as a Sikh-American made me aware of the tensions that underlie choice.
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.
I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing.
To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.
Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.
I come from a theater background, so usually, at the start, you know what happens and where the character goes and everything. But with TV, it's really unpredictable.
One of the things I liked about my character in 'Run' is that she can just disappear into the background if she wants, which is what I'm like.
