Quotes of: Backgrounds Keyword

I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel.

Max von Sydow

My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.

Nandan Nilekani

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

Billy Corgan

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.

Dave Davies

Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.

James S. Coleman

Coming from an athletic background, the scientific aspect is a really big part of understanding beauty and how the body works.

Erin Heatherton

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

Marshall McLuhan

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

Emma Goldman

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

Nick Cave

Catherine Tate was a proven comedy actress from a comedy background with great taste. I knew her work, and was an incredible fan.

Paul Lieberstein

As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.

Anthony Browne

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.

Sophia Bush

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.

Gabby Douglas

Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.

Bennie Thompson

I come from a background where I like collaboration and improv. I think that it is important.

Darren Boyd

We want people who come from humble backgrounds and have a need to win.

Douglas Leone

I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.

Bob Ainsworth

Scottie: Anyone could become obsessed with the past with a background like that!

Vertigo

I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports.

Bradley James

Maybe because I am from a sports background, I don't give up easily. I am a fighter.

Deepika Padukone