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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.
We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.
You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.
I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.
No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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.
My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.
If you eat meat, something like that is going on in the background for you too.
We want to make tennis look like America when it comes to cultural backgrounds.
We differ [with Frank Moore Cross] simply because of our differing backgrounds.
I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.
Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord.
What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.
I come from rather an international, or in other words, a cosmopolitan background.
We don't realise how much the world has affected us. We put God in the background.
Multiple mergers can be challenging because people come from different backgrounds.
I believe it is the flaws that make us interesting, our backgrounds, the hardships.
There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.
When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.
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.
Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.
Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.
I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.
I was glad to have had some dance background because some of the dances are pretty wild.
I come from more of a sculptural background so I think of the form before anything else.
One of Boomer's strong points is that he has a great background in just about everything.
By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.
Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.
I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.
I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.
A good radio show will captivate you, and it's active listening. It's not in the background.
N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds
Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.
I've dug so deep into his background, I can practically tell you when he stopped waring diapers.
Hitler was highly secretive - not least about his personal life, his background, and his family.
My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.
People from different backgrounds approach a subject in different ways and ask different questions.
I can be the guy to motivate people from all different backgrounds and all different walks of life.