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The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds.
I grew up listening to Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, guys with blues backgrounds.
The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense.
As footballers, you just grow up with people from different backgrounds and different colors of skin.
My parents are artists and have always instilled great pride in understanding of various backgrounds.
Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.
Everybody has a background. Everybody has a past. Not everybody's the same person all the way through.
Not everybody who is overweight comes from deprived backgrounds, but that's where the propensity lies.
If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.
I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.
We love what we love, and shared fandoms bring people of all ages and backgrounds into one great tribe.
the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.
I was always the one in the background or the donkey. I was never a star, I never got to be the main part.
The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.
Finding entrepreneurs from diverse and international backgrounds is a top priority for us at Y Combinator.
I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.
I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing.
I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.
I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.
I have worked hard to represent people of all backgrounds and I have always done so in a spirit of tolerance.
U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here.
As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.
Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors
I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.
Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.
It's the people who transcend their backgrounds who are interesting to me. I have got a bit of inverted snobbery.
One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.
In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.
When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.
I think that as reporters we certainly bring to bear our own set of experiences, our backgrounds, to our reporting.
I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.
I'm incredibly proud of the fact that my government has worked closely with communities of all different backgrounds.
We have a lot of guys from different backgrounds in pit crews and even in the front offices of NASCAR and race teams.
Sports culture has long been patriotic, tolerant of diverse backgrounds and perspective and celebratory of meritocracy.
God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.
The success story at Citadel has been written by a number of people who have backgrounds from the University of Chicago.
The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.
I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did Oliver here I played the Artful Dodger and I did The Sound of Music.
ADCOLOR is an incredible organization that not only empowers people from all backgrounds to rise up but also to give back.
I find discussing mathematics with colleagues of different backgrounds one of the most productive ways of making progress.
To have a diverse set of perspectives and backgrounds enables you to understand the market at large much more effectively.
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 think it's awesome to see people of all different ages from all kinds of backgrounds come together for the love of music.
Look, every actor has a different way of preparing or creating a character and yeah, we all are from different backgrounds.
Comics and actors come from such a wide variety of backgrounds and there's a theory that all comedians had tortured youths.
I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.
I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.