Quotes about My Background

Dance is in my background. Votes: 4

The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative. Votes: 4

With my background, I came out of the theater. Votes: 4

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background. Votes: 4

Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef. Votes: 4

I love folk; that's a big part of my background. Votes: 4

My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background. Votes: 4

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background. Votes: 4

You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years. Votes: 3

Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background. Votes: 3

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that. Votes: 3

I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background. Votes: 3

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture. Votes: 3

Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist. Votes: 3

Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors. Votes: 3

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. Votes: 3

With my background and genetic makeup,buddy, you're lucky I'm as normal as I am. (Katra Agrotera) Votes: 3

Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing. Votes: 3

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed Votes: 3

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed. Votes: 3

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background. Votes: 3

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy. Votes: 3

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor. Votes: 3

I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics. Votes: 3

I'm a boys' girl! I come from an army background and I haven't known what being a 'good Indian girl' means. Votes: 3

Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background prepared me for the music. Votes: 3

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy. Votes: 3

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport. Votes: 3

I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage. Votes: 3

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots. Votes: 3

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college. Votes: 3

I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting. Votes: 3

I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit even today. Votes: 3

Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring. Votes: 3

I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there. Votes: 3

People know my background and for people who need an improviser, I'm one of the people they think to use if I'm appropriate for the part. Votes: 3

My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now. Votes: 3

From my background in travel at HotWire and Expedia, the metrics that TaskRabbit is seeing are more than double at what I saw at both those companies. Votes: 3

Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself. Votes: 3

Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes. Votes: 3

People say to me that I'm a role model in technology, but it makes me laugh, because I'm not a technologist, I'm a journalist - that's my background. Votes: 3

I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career. Votes: 3

My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop. Votes: 3

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing. Votes: 3

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone. Votes: 3

Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear that biological evolution could not have occurred. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

My dad is from India, my mom is from Russia. Fortunately, we moved a lot. I went to a lot of different schools and completely different cultures, so that's my background. Votes: 3

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires. Votes: 3

My dad is from India, my mom is from Russia. Fortunately, we moved a lot. I went to a lot of different schools and completely different cultures, so thats my background. Votes: 3

It's like in most parts of America, where there was industry and there is no longer; there is cynicism mixed with sarcasm and some optimism. That's how my background influenced my comedy. Votes: 3

I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool. Votes: 3

My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there. Votes: 3

It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it. Votes: 3

I really thought, with my background growing up, and my service, and all that, I thought it would be enough for the presidency. But... It sure was enough when I ran for Congress. Votes: 3

I grew up in music theater playing to the audience - singing and dancing and showing off. That's really my background. But the camera's different. I think I'm more at home on stage. Votes: 3

It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it. Votes: 3

There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos. Votes: 3

I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that. Votes: 3

The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult. Votes: 3

I like to invest in companies where I can really add value from my experience, network, etc., so checking out my portfolio of other investments, and my background, will generally give some guidance there. Votes: 3

When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the focal points of the campaign, and, in fact, my opponent attacked me for it. Votes: 3

A generation earlier, I think that somebody from my background probably would not have felt fully comfortable at a college like Princeton. But, by the time I graduated from high school, things had changed. Votes: 3

For people who aren't familiar with my background, I didn't graduate high school. My career high salary was about $200,000. My last position was about $122,000. For a guy without a high school diploma, that's pretty good. Votes: 3

A lot of my background is in theatre, so when you're on location, and the wind is really blowing, it's raining, and you've got mud all over you, it really keeps you on your toes. Votes: 3

The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium. Votes: 3

Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene. Votes: 3

As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans. Votes: 3

I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of being on a stage and having a love for performing from a young age. Votes: 3

No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it. Votes: 3

I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a comic, I studied theater and my career when I started was a lot of dramatic stuff. Votes: 3

I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc. Votes: 3

Because of the nature of my background in modeling, I'm really used to using the best products around. And I just wanted to offer the same sort of high quality products to my customers. I think they deserve it. Votes: 3

I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music - hip-hop, and just music, period. 'Cause I come from hip-hop, that's my background, but I'm not gonna let that limit me from where I can go. Votes: 3

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it. Votes: 3

As an actor, my background is in the theater and I feel that my strong suit is period work, but I actually didn't do much of it at all, until the last three or four years. I'm loving it! Votes: 3

My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent. Votes: 3

People hear me talk and they know my background and they immediately stereotype me as being a real, real country guy, and that's the right stereotype. But you also want people to know you're a little broader than that, too. Votes: 3

I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels. Votes: 3

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress. Votes: 3

I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook. Votes: 3

I had always sort of done dramatic things, and I love them; it's my background. But when I think about 'Fresh Meat,' I just think about the cast and the crew that we had... we just had a great time. Votes: 3

For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity. Votes: 3

I actually don't see that strong of a connection between my background as a rock 'n roller and my early films. In a way I think your musical identity in film work is determined by the jobs that come your way. Votes: 3

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic. Votes: 3

This book [Dreams from My Father] was more of a reflection on my public life, now as a U.S. senator and before that as a state senator; how my perspectives around the issues of the day are shaped by my background. Votes: 3

There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues. Votes: 3

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. Votes: 3

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers. Votes: 3

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers. Votes: 3

I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I was a potter for a number of years and earned a BFA in art before going to graduate school for creative writing. Votes: 3

So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house. Votes: 3

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone. Votes: 3

The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of tribes that can never understand each other, but that we're, rather, one common humanity that can meet and learn and love each other. Votes: 3

I know something about the civilization of China, with my background, obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But that's about all. And I've traveled all over the world, and for a long time I didn't know very much about it, really. Votes: 3

I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever. Votes: 3

I tell a lot of interesting stories and talk about my background and have a lot of fun. We have a lot of pictures. They actually came to my house and shot me painting my toenails and doing dishes. But I never really do the dishes.. Votes: 3

Being involved with Oxfam has really opened my eyes to the world at large and the suffering of others. But my background and my life experience are what have allowed me to understand how interconnected we all are. I believe one person suffering reverberates throughout the world. Votes: 3

Coming from a filmy background, I have seen everything growing up, but even at that point of time, it never really fascinated me. I did not like going to my dad's shoots. We were taught not to get carried away with it from a very young age. Votes: 3

I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be. Votes: 3

I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots... I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be. Votes: 3

As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too. Votes: 3

When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect. Votes: 3

I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they could be my people. Votes: 3

Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.' Votes: 3

They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didn't know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative. Votes: 3

The fact was that I had always been considered a leader in my scholastic career. It just never dawned on me that this was any kind of preparation for the business world. Like most young women of my background and education, I always performed on demand and never anything else. Votes: 3

I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, since I think I applied to 300 jobs and didn't get any of them, so I decided that I would stay in school and go to Harvard Business school, and that's my background. Votes: 3

My background is Scottish. Votes: 2

My background is in health care. Votes: 2

My family background was deeply Christian. Votes: 2

My background was in performing originally. Votes: 2

My background is in improv and writing. Votes: 2

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly. Votes: 2

My martial arts background is Tae Kwon Do. Votes: 2

I never want to hide my wrestling background. Votes: 2

I don't know much about my biological background. Votes: 2

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing. Votes: 2

My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart. Votes: 2

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background. Votes: 2

My background is in musical comedy. Votes: 0

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing Votes: 0

I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching. Votes: 0

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background. Votes: 0

My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance. Votes: 0

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant. Votes: 0

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters. Votes: 0

My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college. Votes: 0

My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist Votes: 0

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants. Votes: 0

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life. Votes: 0

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational. Votes: 0

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league. Votes: 0

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress]. Votes: 0

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner. Votes: 0

It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background. Votes: 0

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people. Votes: 0

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals. Votes: 0

My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship. Votes: 0

Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost. Votes: 0

I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business. Votes: 0

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players. Votes: 0

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions. Votes: 0

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard. Votes: 0

In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that. Votes: 0

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law. Votes: 0

Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity. Votes: 0

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background. Votes: 0

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. Votes: 0

I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is. Votes: 0

My brothers and I were raised by our parents to respect everyone regardless of background or race. Votes: 0

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background Votes: 0

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background. Votes: 0

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song. Votes: 0

I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life. Votes: 0

My background wasn't one blessed with all the luxuries in life. Nothing is forever and I realize that. Votes: 0

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side. Votes: 0

My family background has always been very supportive. They're going to be there for me no matter what. Votes: 0

Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self. Votes: 0

With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally. Votes: 0

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background. Votes: 0

I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business. Votes: 0

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater. Votes: 0

I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing. Votes: 0

I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing." Votes: 0

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity. Votes: 0

If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber Votes: 0

My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency. Votes: 0

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town. Votes: 0

My undergraduate degree is in business, so I'm trying to get a bit of a background before I go in. Votes: 0

My background sets me apart. I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child. Votes: 0

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things. Votes: 0

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background. Votes: 0

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation. Votes: 0

I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things. Votes: 0

I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could. Votes: 0

My films often have a spiritual dimension which comes from my Muslim background, and I'm happy to tackle that in cinema. Votes: 0

It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background. Votes: 0

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go. Votes: 0

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege. Votes: 0

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education. Votes: 0

I think [my kids] are runners. They definitely have the background. I try to help them as much as I can. Votes: 0

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes. Votes: 0

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen. Votes: 0

It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible. Votes: 0

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane. Votes: 0

I understand that I may make mistakes with characters who don't share my own background, but I commit to doing my best. Votes: 0

I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports. Votes: 0

I vaguely remember my schooldays. They were what was going on in the background while I was trying to listen to the Beatles. Votes: 0

If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that. Votes: 0

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background. Votes: 0

My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background. Votes: 0

People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. Votes: 0

I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready. Votes: 0

The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad. Votes: 0

My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before. Votes: 0

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me. Votes: 0

My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing. Votes: 0

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training. Votes: 0

I normally hate books that have anything to do with medicine, thanks to my own background in nursing - FYI, almost everybody gets it wrong. Votes: 0

Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background. Votes: 0

My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty. Votes: 0

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position. Votes: 0

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background. Votes: 0

On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting for space, demanding presence. Votes: 0

My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram. Votes: 0

I really don't feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not as an aristocratic intellectual. Votes: 0

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background. Votes: 0

In high school, I came to realize I had a second-hand faith, derived from my parents and family background. I had no actual reasons for believing it. Votes: 0

I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do. Votes: 0

I am a Republican because of my military background, my pro-life beliefs, my support for the Second Amendment, and my belief that government should not grow excessively. Votes: 0

My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach. Votes: 0

My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem. Votes: 0

Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like. Votes: 0

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. Votes: 0

Many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I feared. Page 135 Votes: 0

Im a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do. Votes: 0

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis. Votes: 0

I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own. Votes: 0

I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education. Votes: 0

Having a stadium in France named after a footballer from the Ivory Coast, even if I'm proud of my France-Ivory Coast background, is a great proof of integration. Votes: 0

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid. Votes: 0

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did. Votes: 0

My background in financial services and my experience as a state representative have given me the ability to identify our country's fiscal problems and find steps to remedy them. Votes: 0

My background with Cummings was rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, but Tuesday liked to walk in and do the scene. I must say that she was really wonderful. Aggravating, but wonderful. Votes: 0

I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the fabric industry, and even my grandfather and my great-grandfather were lace manufacturers. Votes: 0

Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15. Votes: 0

I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking. Votes: 0

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance. Votes: 0

My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned. Votes: 0

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know? Votes: 0

I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport. Votes: 0

I have my own method [of acting]. I come from, I've interrogated people; I come from an undercover background, so it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks. Votes: 0

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland. Votes: 0

I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story. Votes: 0

My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human nature to want to solve puzzles. Votes: 0

My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them. Votes: 0

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling. Votes: 0

I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and listen to Discharge records when I was a kid. Votes: 0

I don't wish hardship on anybody. My background was one of being very difficult, very hard, and they were subject to the times I lived in. I wouldn't wish that on anybody. Votes: 0

My background are acting, film production, directing, and I studied them for many years. Keep in mind that you need many other skills when you are starting any film project related to real life. Votes: 0

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me. Votes: 0

My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff. Votes: 0