#background

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear. ↗

— Christian Bale

#background #damn #disappear #fade #feel

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#am #background #class #class background #contempt

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life. ↗

— Russell Baker

#american life #background #journalism #life #noise

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#any #background #gold #islands #landscape

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

#fifties #forgotten #got #i #involved

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#applied #background #cannot #cultural #culture

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#fans #hope #i #inspiration #inspired

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational. ↗

— Connie Britton

#degree #some #theater #whole

There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues. ↗

— Ruth Brown

#background #because #blues #dealing #decided

I'm from a Gypsy background! ↗

— Cher

#gypsy #i