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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!
My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics. I came from a very strict background.
My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.
Maybe because I am from a sports background, I don't give up easily. I am a fighter.
I came from a social background in Brazil that is very poor. We didn't have anything.
I was quite a shy child - not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.
I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.
When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.
My training and ballet background definitely gives me the competitive edge on the ice.
I have a background in dance, so I danced my entire life, since I was three years old.
I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.
Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.
The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.
Certainly in my generation, there aren't enough actors from a working-class background.
I come from a background where you don't show off the good things you do. It's modesty.
I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.
There isn't a traditional background of Asian women playing sport, but that's changing.
I'm not of a science background, I was never a comic book geek, and I was never a gamer.
I have a background in graphic design and have been designing t-shirt graphics for years.
By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.
Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' album.
I didn't come from a very rigid background, where there's a clan or a tribe or a religion.
I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.
I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.
I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel.
There's probably been very few people in comedy that have a diversified background as I do.
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.
I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.
The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.
Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.
I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.
I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.
There's not a day that goes by that I don't draw on my undergraduate background in psychology.
To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.
Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.
There's nothing in my background that would have said I was destined to be a senior politician.
I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
I didn't have any singing background. Against the wishes of my parents, I got into making music.
I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.
Every Kentuckian, regardless of background, should have access to a job that pays a living wage.
To be honest, I think I would like a really fun, quirky character with an interesting background.