#background

If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#answer #aspect #background #because #blocked

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#background #been #believed #dialogue #everyone

I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#amazing things #background #chance #done #ever

I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#backgrounds #because #behavior #careful #come

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

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

At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#background #bass #bass player #because #day

Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#background #culture #deeper #deeper level #get

I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work. ↗

— Chen Ning Yang

#background #chinese #civilization #continue #dedicate

You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#clothes #how #into #lining #much