#background

You do tend to miss that repetition of day in and day out in a restaurant. I would like to open someplace where I can get back in touch with that side of my restaurant background. It is something we have plans to do and not sure how or when, but it is not too far away. ↗

— Curtis Stone

#back #background #day #far #far away

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#both #common #context #cultural #dante

It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background. ↗

— Hilary Swank

#change #grown #having #humble #i

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#background #cannot #characters #context #empty

I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#aware #background #church #family #grew

With my background, I came out of the theater. ↗

— Joe Morton

#came #i #i came #out #theater

Well, Mr. Speaker, if so many of these Iraqis are ready to come up and to provide the security, the police work in the country, then surely there should be no problem with putting American forces into the background instead of having them up front. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#background #come #country #forces #front

...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ... ↗

— John Geddes

#perspective #writing-advice #writing-process #writing-advice

You've got to step up, Emme. They need to hear your voice, hear you. You're better than being stuck in the background. ↗

— Elizabeth Eulberg

#eulberg #inspirational #music #step-up #take-a-bow

My background was in performing originally. ↗

— Cy Coleman

#originally #performing