#background

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

— Breaux Greer

#character #else #here #i #movie

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#background #because #been #before #challenging

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

#around #aspect #background #being #celebrity

Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#backgrounds #coming #competing #dealing #delhi

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you. ↗

— Billy Higgins

#care #come #few #few things #go

I am myself of a mixed background. ↗

— Quiara Alegria Hudes

#background #i #i am #mixed #myself

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#carried #family #family background #means #out

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#been #continent #cultural #first #gathered

There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#ads #background #buy #check #checks

Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#car #checks #drive #guns #how