No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

To give you some background, I represent the largest manufacturing district and the largest agricultural district in Ohio.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

I was born in Belgium, but we moved to Kilburn when I was one, so 'Time Out' has always been in the background of my life.

The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.

Free school meals for all children, no matter what their background, will improve the education and health of our children.

I think it might be interesting to give an Emmy to an outstanding background performance in either a comedy or drama series.

I love fashion, but I don't come from a background of loving clothes, and I remember feeling badly dressed from a young age.

We come from a very humble background. A lot of my paycheck from 'Skins' went to paying the bills and getting us a new sofa.

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'

I believe that conservative solutions can help families of every race, every economic background, and every town in Oklahoma.

A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.

How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.

Any important series like 'Game of Thrones' or 'The Walking Dead' base their product around the characters and their background.

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

If I'd been from a different background, I could have gone to a grammar school, I suppose. I might have been a different person.

Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what's going to happen next.

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

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

It doesn't matter what gender you are, or it doesn't matter what other background you come from: everybody deals with insecurity.

Catherine Tate was a proven comedy actress from a comedy background with great taste. I knew her work, and was an incredible fan.

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.

Now that I do have money in my bank account, I want to help kids with a background similar to mine to get smart about their money.

Your story, background, the music you listen to, the emotions you feel, your lifestyle, goals - all of this is your personal style.

I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I'm gonna get lost.

When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.

I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.

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

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.

I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.

My background is not typical of a lawyer or a DPP. My dad was a toolmaker before he retired, so he worked in a factory all his life.

As a child, I was a victim of bullying because of my cultural background. I didn't look like all the other kids. I had a funny name.

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.

We don't have a jewellery background, so we just come up with these things that we wanna wear, that we wish were out there, you know?

I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.

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

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

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.

Dream Theater music, there's a lot of background and context to the songs, as far as the subject matter and the albums they come from.

Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.

I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.

Singing background has always been such a precious thing. I'm always going to be excited to sing behind an artist and learn from them.

I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema.

I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.

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