Backgrounds Quotes - Page 36

• I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.

  Della Reese

  White, Rays, Singers

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• Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going.

  Dianna Agron

  Sensitive Person, Rejection, Age

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think if I hadn't had the dance background, it would have been much harder as a kid to be like, 'I'm going to be an actress.' But you're involved with one area of the arts and other things interest you. It feels like an easier move.

  Dianna Agron

  Art, Moving, Kids

  "Dianna Agron On Set Interview I AM NUMBER FOUR". collider.com. October 11, 2010.

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• I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.

  Paul Walker

  Blue, Collars, Feels

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• I never want to hide my wrestling background.

  Chris Jericho

  Wrestling, Want

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

  Connie Britton

  Degrees, Theater, Whole

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.

  Aretha Franklin

  Roots, Church, Natural

  "New again: Aretha Franklin". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 4, 2012.

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• Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.

  Anna Friel

  Stay Strong, Thinking, Support

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit

  Ron Silver

  Education, People, Actors

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• I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him

  Alton Brown

  Knowing, Long, Found

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• Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together [is] surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

  Carl Sagan

  Loyalty, Character, People

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.371, Ballantine Books

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• I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album

  Melissa Joan Hart

  Song, Singing, Albums

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• Axl and I came from completely different backgrounds. Because of that we made an interesting pair trying to figure each other out.

  Slash

  Interesting, Trying, Different

  "Slash: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2011.

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• I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

  Martin Mull

  Thinking, Two, Views

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• I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.

  Gary Cole

  Teenage, Kids, Guy

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• I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.

  Skylar Astin

  Kings, Fans, Theater

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

  Casey Kasem

  Surfing, Acting, Actors

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• It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.

  Patrick Macnee

  Thinking, People, Acting

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. September 17, 2003.

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• Mitt Romney comes from a Mormon background. I don't know how many wives he has. I'm not saying that I believe in that, I'm just saying he was born on a Mormon compound. I'm not a 'Wifer' but for some reason he's never shown his original marriage certificate.

  Bill Maher

  Believe, Wife, Just Saying

  "Bill Maher Mocks Birthers With Mitt Romney ‘Wifer’ Controversy". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

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• I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.

  Mary Lynn Rajskub

  Confusion, World, Ends

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• I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are.

  Stephen Rea

  Thinking, Years, People

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• I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don't need a strong political background in.

  George Lopez

  Strong, Believe, Taken

  "George Lopez for mayor?". "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. July 27, 2011.

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• I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

  George Lopez

  Uncles, Couple, Fighting

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• Naturally, I was thrilled but being the first year, the Academy Awards had no background or tradition, and it naturally didn’t mean what it does now. Had I known then what it would come to mean in the next few years, I’m sure I’d have been overwhelmed. At the time, I think I was more thrilled over meeting Douglas Fairbanks.

  Janet Gaynor

  Mean, Thinking, Awards

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel very fortunate, I've been exposed to a lot of different cultures. If I wasn't from a multi-ethnic background, I wouldn't have had these great experiences. And one of the things that makes me a good actor is life experience.

  Navi Rawat

  Different, Culture, Actors

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