Backdrop Quotes

• Every day life must always be lived against the backdrop of eternity.

  Tim Kimmel

  Eternity, Day Life

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• Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Hollywood, My Family, Knows

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• I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.

  Lydia Lunch

  Thinking, Lunch, People

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• Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Design, Website, Users

  Jakob Nielsen (2000). “Designing Web Usability”, New Riders Pub

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• Palming separates the men from the boys!

  Ed Marlo

  Boys, Men, Gym Class

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• Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Cosmos, Fabric, Our Lives

  Philip Zimbardo, John Boyd (2008). “The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound down by their practical world view, are able to place those members of the disintegrating tribes they may have seen in their travels among these once-living walls, unaware of the moral distance separating them, since only the semi-indigenous spirit of the South American can grasp the subtle differences.

  Che Guevara

  Wall, Distance, Differences

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• Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living.

  Alex Ebert

  Cinema, Opera, Matter

  FaceBook post by Alex Ebert from Sep 16, 2013

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• I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my photographs.

  Loretta Lux

  Thinking, Costumes, Photograph

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• The artist has the power to signoff the work by deconstructing the work itself: I've finished this work now and I'll sign it and relegate the painting to simply something that services my signature. The painting becomes the colorful backdrop of the signature.

  Gavin Turk

  Artist, Signatures, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd like to change the depictions of life, love, and adventure under what's known as the typical, overused backdrop of Hollywood.

  Romany Malco

  Love Life, Adventure, Typical

  "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

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• At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which private life unfolded the gripping show of its adventures. Nowadays, time moves forward at a rapid pace. Forgotten overnight, a historic event glistens the next day like the morning dew and thus is no longer the backdrop to a narrator's tale but rather an amazing adventure enacted against the background of the over-familiar banality of private life.

  Milan Kundera

  Morning, Moving, Adventure

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• It was the time of the Cold War and so there were was a lot of pressure on the - to get going and the Russians were claiming that they were - Soviets were claiming they were ahead of us in technology. And so it was against that backdrop that the early space flights took off.

  John Glenn

  War, Technology, Space Flight

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You can never go wrong with a nice red lip. I'm not afraid to wear it during the day or basically any time because I wear a lot of black and it's a great backdrop for it.

  Crystal Renn

  Nice, Black, Red

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Beautifully written, intensely passionate and gripping, FALLEN grabbed me
  from the first sentence and didn’t let go. Its eerie future world and
  frightening mores provide an unforgettable backdrop to the story of Lilia
  Desjardins, the shade-hunter, and fallen-angel turned cop, Adam Montgomery.
  It’s Matrix, Blade Runner and Terminator rolled into a riveting love story
  and made better. Perfect. A must-read by an author who keeps you on the
  edge of your seat.

  Linnea Sinclair

  Letting Go, Angel, Eerie

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• A conflagration always made such a nice backdrop to a battle. Fire made everything so much more joyously apocalyptic.

  Stuart Hill

  Nice, Fire, Battle

  Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #2: Blade of Fire”, p.683, Scholastic Inc.

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• When you refuse to teach on the radical depravity of men, it is an impossibility that you bring glory to God, His Christ, and His cross, because the cross of Jesus Christ and the glory thereof is most magnified when it's placed in front of the backdrop of our depravity!

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Men, Glory

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• Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a backdrop of looming danger. Anne Fortier casts a new light on one of history's greatest stories of passion. I was swept away.

  Sara Gruen

  Passion, Light, Historical

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• Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Formulas, Has Beens, Formula One

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• I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn't he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.

  Warsan Shire

  Girl, Stars, Dark

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• Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Reading, Stable

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2001). “Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books”, p.12, Beacon Press

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• There are people who have no engaged conversation with the land whatsoever, no sense of its beauty or extremes or limits and therefore no reason to question their actions in a place that is merely backdrop.

  Ellen Meloy

  Land, People, Limits

  Ellen Meloy (2008). “The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky”, p.289, Vintage

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• Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present against the backdrop of the past, within a frame of perception that is so familiar, so safe that is is terrifying to risk changing it even when we know our perceptions are distorted, limited, constricted by that old view.

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty

  Growing Up, Past, Views

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• Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic position within the world and an inexorable demographic decline. The operation in Gaza
  is not Netanyahu’s strategy in excess; it is Netanyahu’s strategy in its entirety. The liberal Zionist, two-state vision with which I identify, which once commanded a mainstream position within Israeli political life has been relegated to a left-wing rump within it.

  Jonathan Chait

  Wings, Two, Political

  "Israel Is Making It Hard To Be Pro-Israel". Article by Jonathan Chait, nymag.com. July 29, 2014.

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• Japan is a wonderful country, a strange mixture of ancient mystique and cyberpunk saturation. It's a monolith of society's achievements, yet maintains a foothold in the past, creating an amazing backdrop for tourings and natives alive. Japan captures the imagination like no other. You never feel quite so far from home as you do in Japan, yet there are no other people on the planet that make you feel as comfortable.

  Corey Taylor

  Country, Home, Memorable

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