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Growing up in a Mennonite background, there's not much media.
It matters a great deal that I come from a Jewish background.
I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.
I'm ashamed to say that I'm from a very privileged background.
My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.
I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.
I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.
I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.
I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.
I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album.
I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.
I have a crazy background in music, both as a performer and writer.
We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight.
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.
I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.
I'm much calmer when there's no TV or music playing in the background.
I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!
My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.
I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.
My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.
Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.
When I entered Harvard, my background was mostly combinatorics and algebra.
I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.
I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.
No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.
But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.
I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.
My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.
I contemplated a career at NIH at one point. I have a neuroscience background.
My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.
I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.
My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background.
I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.
My dance background helped me tremendously. Dancing is like second nature to me.
I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.
What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
I need quiet when I'm recording because I don't want any noise in the background.
My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.
The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.
I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.
I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion.
My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.