#background

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. ↗

— A. C. Benson

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But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background. ↗

— Tim McGraw

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

— Joe Morton

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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

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My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true. ↗

— John Astin

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In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book. ↗

— Sophia Bush

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Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. ↗

— Alden Nowlan

#american #american writers #background #been #come

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

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What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures. ↗

— David Krumholtz

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