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I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.
- Josh Turner
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You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.
- Tom Wolfe
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I come from a Catholic Republican military family in Georgia - the antithesis of Sean's hippie-artist-peacenik background.
- Kemp Muhl
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I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.
- Stephen Cole Kleene
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That's where my amateur background helps. You step on a scale, you fight whoever they tell you to fight.
- Demetrius Andrade
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There's always going to be a gap between what you believe and what you actually do, regardless of what your background is.
- Ramy Youssef
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I'm one of those guys who always has that kind of underlying anxiety kind of always creeping around in the background.
- John Rzeznik
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
- Hans Frank
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I am myself of a mixed background.
- Quiara Alegria Hudes
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I like philharmonic music a lot. That kind of symphonic music has always been an integral part of the arrangements in many of my songs and background scores.
- Vidyasagar
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I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.
- Coco Lee
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There have been a couple of things I've been involved in launching that have been a bit more public, but I've always had other things tipping away in the background.
- Brian O'Driscoll
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Obama doesn't run around wearing a Carrie Bradshaw-esque nameplate necklace that says 'Socialist.' But his policies, actions, words, background and associations speak louder than any ID necklace ever could.
- Monica Crowley
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When I was very young, my background as a Sikh-American made me aware of the tensions that underlie choice.
- Sheena Iyengar
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I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.
- Valerie Trierweiler
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I come from a very working-class background.
- Janet Montgomery
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But I'm grateful for everything I've got and I think that's part of my working-class background.
- Emma Hayes
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My background was in performing originally.
- Cy Coleman
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I have a quantitative background, but really, derivatives appealed to me because they require so much creativity.
- Blythe Masters
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Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.
- Bennie Thompson
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I had come from an orchestral background, but I didn't really have any orchestral pieces for film.
- Marco Beltrami
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Homophobia obviously still exists, but it is a lot more subtle, and it is a lot more in the background.
- Andrew Haigh
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Anybody with my background in the airline business who is not deaf is a fraud.
- Maurice Flanagan
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My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
- Larry David
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Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.
- Hansika Motwani
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I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.
- Marcello Giordani
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A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.
- Katy Mixon
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I think I have automobile skills and musical background.
- Mannie Fresh
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What I discovered was that just by eating normally, we all have background levels of contaminants.
- Nell Newman
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If anyone tells you that you're too old to be an entrepreneur or that you have the wrong background, don't listen to them. Go with your gut instincts and pursue your passions.
- Vivek Wadhwa
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I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.
- Bruce Greenwood
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I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.
- Lynn Shelton
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The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.
- Satyajit Ray
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But I came from a conservative Republican background.
- Christopher Meloni
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I come from a middle-class background and there was none to lead me through to movies.
- Anupama Parameswaran
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My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.
- Diane Abbott
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I come from a very strenuous, strict, disciplined classical music background. My grandfather, noted Carnatic classical exponent Dr. Sripada Pinakapani, was a Padma Bhushan recipient.
- Chinmayi
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Growing up in a Mennonite background, there's not much media.
- David A. R. White
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You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.
- Elizabeth Emken
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My background is as a computer scientist and programmer.
- Sunil Nagaraj
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I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.
- Ashley Bell
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I'm ashamed to say that I'm from a very privileged background.
- David Lagercrantz
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I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.
- Tim Harford
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I always wanted to use my newspaper background in a novel.
- Mary Kay Andrews
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I remember taking photographs as the local Gauleiter, Albert Forster, harangued huge crowds of Germans in the evenings with a big swastika flag in the background.
- Douglas Slocombe
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America's armed forces are an essential background to much of what the U.S. accomplishes internationally.
- Richard N. Haass
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Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.
- Paul Giamatti
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I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.
- Bob Ainsworth
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Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
- Jack Vance
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I'm really thankful for my improv background.
- Lauren Lapkus
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I came from a background of directing behind-the-scenes documentaries.
- Peyton Reed
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It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.
- David Chalmers
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
- D. B. Sweeney
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I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion.
- Michael Moorcock
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I don't come from a privileged background.
- Bernadine Dohrn
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To give you some background, I represent the largest manufacturing district and the largest agricultural district in Ohio.
- Bob Latta
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My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.
- Amy Schumer
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My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African-American, so I had a pretty diverse culinary background to work with.
- Ayesha Curry
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
- Hakeem Olajuwon
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My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.
- Yuri Milner
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I think the whole DVD craze has provided opportunities for material that, for those interested in it, explains the whole history and background in getting a film made, which is great.
- Steven Bauer
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I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.
- Jerry Spinelli
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There's probably been very few people in comedy that have a diversified background as I do.
- Ron Shock
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It's difficult for a 7-footer to be in the background. But I try to do it as much as I can.
- Robert Parish
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It does not matter what is the background of actors as long as they fit the role assigned to them.
- Mukul Dev
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I grew up in one of the most prolific high-school-wrestling programs in the country, and MMA fighters are more successful when they have that amateur-wrestling background.
- Jake Hager
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I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.
- Sonia Johnson
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My background is in improv and writing.
- Paul Scheer
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I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.
- John Frusciante
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I contemplated a career at NIH at one point. I have a neuroscience background.
- Bill Maris
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My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.
- Connie Britton
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When I entered Harvard, my background was mostly combinatorics and algebra.
- Maryam Mirzakhani
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I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.
- Michael Heizer
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Background singers who are any good have to be great imitators.
- Darlene Love
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I didn't really get any rigorous background in film history.
- Joshua Oppenheimer
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My grandmother was a classical pianist, so I grew up with Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven. I studied piano as a kid. My musical background and upbringing was very much a mix.
- Phillipa Soo
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I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.
- Joel Edgerton
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The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.
- Kim Jong Il
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I came from a social background in Brazil that is very poor. We didn't have anything.
- Oscar
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My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background.
- Tommy Wiseau
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Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.
- Jose Garces
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My background is in dance. No, I'm kidding. I was actually really uncoordinated as a child, when it came to dance, but I did play a lot of sports, and I do some break-dancing from time-to-time. No, I really don't.
- Beth Riesgraf
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I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.
- Ennio Morricone
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I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.
- Della Reese
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The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, North Ossetians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis.
- Henry Grunwald
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No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.
- Peter Mayle
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My family background was deeply Christian.
- Abbe Pierre
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I have a background in graphic design and have been designing t-shirt graphics for years.
- Manila Luzon
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My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan
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In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background.
- Mario Lopez
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When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.
- Jenna Morasca
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
- Edith Wharton
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I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.
- Jennifer Lopez
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