#background

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

#background #both #comes #explosive #father

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#anxiety #background #clinical #collapse #depression

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time. ↗

— Caroline Corr

#background #drums #had #i #know

Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#belief #brought #corners #faiths #his

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#fact #gimmick #in fact #just #me

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#any #background #college #come #european

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#better #desk #dinner #dinner party #get

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#deprived #i #idea #infancy #like

To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#connect #culture #family #grew #had

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#academic #background #culture #especially #ivy