#background

I come from a very working-class background. ↗

— Clive Owen

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It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

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I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish. ↗

— Marcel Marceau

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My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

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I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds. ↗

— Ennio Morricone

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I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

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It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission. ↗

— Sally Ride

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Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

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I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport. ↗

— Joel Silver

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