#background

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

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Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

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Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be a lawyer. You don't need to have some professional degree. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

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I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair. ↗

— Bob Graham

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I'm just a husband waltzing in the background. ↗

— Bruce Greenwood

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I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie! ↗

— Breaux Greer

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I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album. ↗

— Melissa Joan Hart

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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#art #background #candy #child #culture

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

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