Backgrounds Quotes - Page 20

• I respect the Second Amendment. But I believe there should be comprehensive background checks, and we should close the gun show loophole, and close the online loophole.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Gun, Second Amendment

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• I live in New York, and Clara lives in Recife. The character is Brazilian, and as I read the script, I felt like Kleber [Mendonca] had been spying on me in order to create this role [in Aquarius]. Clara and I have different backgrounds. I come from an intuitive world, and she's an academic, but when we got together, we really became one. There are many times when I'm watching the film where Clara will say something, and I will find myself agreeing with her. It was the first time that I had this weird sensation that the character I played is so me, but yet it's so her.

  Sonia Braga

  New York, Character, Aquarius

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I know there's similar dissatisfaction in America. There's a lot of white people who come from blue collar backgrounds and who feel ill-equipped and badly served by modern economics and the modern job market.

  Dylan Moran

  Jobs, White, America

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• In addition, black folks need to attend green conferences, too. We just self-segregate and don't go. They might even waive your fee if you apply on a diversity basis, because they'd be so shocked to see somebody from a different background wanting to be a part of the green movement.

  Van Jones

  Self, Diversity, Black

  Source: aalbc.com

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• In terms of what Hillary Clinton, who's running for president, thinks about Catholics and the value more broadly of having a faith background, I can tell you she views at it as a plus, just as she views her own Methodism as a plus.

  Tim Kaine

  Running, Thinking, Views

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• When I think about what we need to do, we have 33,000 people a year who die from guns. I think we need comprehensive background checks, need to close the online loophole, close the gun show loophole. There's other matters that I think are sensible that are the kind of reforms that would make a difference that are not in any way conflicting with the Second Amendment.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

  Charlie Brooker

  Writing, Comedy, Known

  "'Black Mirror' Creator Dramatizes Our Worst Nightmares About Technology". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 20, 2016.

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• In my workshop, I like to have the TV on for background noise, but I only put on shows that you don't really need to watch in serial order; stuff you can glance up every once in a while and still know what's going on; for example, Cops reruns, Jeopardy!, and Forensic Files.

  William Gurstelle

  Order, Background Noise, Example

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• There are plenty of characters of color in fantasy and science fiction. But when you ask the question, "How many of them on-screen have rich, thought-out backgrounds and family elements to draw on?," you quickly find out that the answer is not very many.

  Stephen H. Segal

  Character, Color, Fiction

  "The Wisdom of 'Geek Parenting'". Interview With Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 28, 2016.

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• [Donald Trump] can`t reach out and push off at the same time when he says - he says we want the ban on assault weapons, because they`re so very dangerous, and background checks on guns, given the level of violence in the country, he says he wants more guns to make us more secure.

  Jesse Jackson

  Country, Gun, Assault Weapons

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I had a very colorless background, and when I left Ohio and moved to England, nobody knew who I was and I had a real freedom. I could be free to experiment and experience things and I liked that a lot.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Real, Ohio, England

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't read the script [ Rules Don't Apply ] for a couple years. It basically amounted to this kind of apprenticeship with Warren [Beatty]: conversations and learning about his whole background in the film industry and his life.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Couple, Years, Scripts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes I highjack memories. Sometimes I switch them around. Sometimes they're just in the background, like some little bass note. Those things have carried me through, especially when I first started writing. They're still there, but more in the distance these days.

  Paul Beatty

  Memories, Distance, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Well, it's not all the same, but there are a lot of parallels. I'm not sure how to answer [on psychology background], but I think when I was studying psychology I had a professor and a friend who would talk about "process" all the time. Your process, his process, the group's process. There's some carryover from that discussion to my creative work.

  Paul Beatty

  Thinking, Creative, Psychology

  "Paul Beatty: I See You". Interview With Chris Paul Wolfe, www.guernicamag.com. October 27, 2016.

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• I'm going to fight for every citizen of every background from every stretch of America.

  Donald Trump

  Fighting, America, Citizens

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Just watching people who come from a stand-up background is different from watching people who come from an improv or sketch background.

  Luka Jones

  People, Different

  "Da’Vine Joy Randolph & Luka Jones Talk TBS’ ‘People Of Earth’ + Watch The First Episode!". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and languages, I'm always analyzing things.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, Literature, Want

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• I come from more of a sculptural background so I think of the form before anything else.

  Richard McGuire

  Thinking, Form

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• If you see young tulkus when they're with other little monks, it's like in a Broadway show or something where the main character is spotlighted and the others kind of fade into the background. And you think, who is that tulku? Because that's all you see, even though they're all dressed the same and they're all the same age, but it's like the tulku is illumined. They don't look like the other ones.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Character, Thinking, Age

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• [James] Comey's got a good background but there's nothing there, so far as it appears. Nothing there. So he wrote the letter to the eight Republican committee members copied to the Democrats saying 'you know some emails have turned up, we've looked at a lot of emails now it turns out there are even more emails - we don't know what's there, so there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that could be of interest to anyone until we conduct our multi-week, multi-month investigation.

  William Weld

  Eight, Letters, Months

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I kind of make my life an open book as long as the left exists to use Saul Alinsky tactics to destroy people, your background is going to be fair game. If you're a human being who has behaved as a human, they're going to use anything that you've done wrong against you. I've lived my public life as openly as possible so that they can't rip something out of my closet to use against me.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Rip, Book, Games

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• The FBI background check would show that Rudolph Giuliani had an out-of-control affair with his Press Secretary while he was mayor of New York.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  New York, Rudolph, Affair

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think there's a longer shortlist for that particular position and others.Highly qualified men and women who have come to Bedminster, come to Trump Tower. People of different races and ethnicities. All political persuasions. People who have different backgrounds, public sector, private sector. Most of them will not be in the cabinet. Most of them are coming because they love the country and they want to share what their work on a particular issue or a particular success story has been.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Country, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The first thing is we got to make sure we try to keep guns out of the wrong hands. And I want comprehensive background checks.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Hands, Trying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.

  Charlie Brooker

  Writing, People, Might

  Source: www.avclub.com

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