Background Quotes

My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.

Attacking another American's qualifications solely based on his ethnic background is bigotry. Plain and simple.

I listen to a lot of music from outside, lot of background scores.

I like to write things that are a soundtrack to my life so if I am experiencing that moment, I want to portray what would be playing in the background.

I need quiet when I'm recording because I don't want any noise in the background.

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

For me, comic scores always have to have some melancholy in the background.

Expanding background checks for all sales and transfers of firearms is simple, popular, and commonsense.

Why should your background be held against you? It is so short-sighted.

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

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

Just because you have a good athletic background doesn't make you necessarily a good wrestler. Because it takes a lot to be a good professional wrestler.

I grew up with a religious background.

If you think about the popular singers, actors, lyricists, directors, most of them don't have a background in the industry.

The arts don't care what your background is. They belong to everyone.

When I started publishing my work, one of the biggest surprises to me was the recurring question about my background and why I wasn't doing more stories about Asian-Americans.

I want to promote pastry. Pastry has always been in the background - it's always cooking, cooking, cooking on programs, and pastry has just been this thing at the end. I want to show people what we do.

I come from a very conservative background.

When I moved to Mumbai I had no acting background and so was unable to make a breakthrough for years.

I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

My wife is absolutely one of my key advisors. She comes from a background that's very different than mine.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

My family background was deeply Christian.

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.

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.

I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

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.