Backgrounds Quotes - Page 40

• It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.

  Benjamin McKenzie

  Loner, Type

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• I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

  Robert Sheckley

  Hero, Writing, Firefighter

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• Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate upon it in order to get the most of it.
  You must absorb most of it. The harmonies within the music can relax, soothe, relax, and uplift the
  mind when you concentrate upon and absorb it. Jazz music stimulates the minds and uplifts the souls
  of those who play it was well as of those who listen to immerse themselves in it. As the mind is
  stimulated and the soul uplifted, this is eventually reflected in the body.

  Horace Silver

  Music, Uplifting, Order

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• Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.

  Steven Pressfield

  Foundation, Resistance, Months

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• 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

  Song, Needs, Done

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• The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Color, White, Flags

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• As you see something that yo want to shot and it's bearing down on you, it's important to start framing long before the subject gets close to you. The light will reveal itself possibly long before you want to take the image, but you have to wait until the picture comes to you, and if you've been anticipating carefully when the subject will be in position, the background will have been figured out in advance.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Light, Long

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• Since the background is as important as the subject, you mustn't let it default by chance. You must control not only vertical and horizontal, you must be aware of the depth of field (or lack of it) that you want in the background.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Important, Want

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.66, New Riders

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• I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Book, Two, Surfing

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• I used to love to call L.A. when I lived in New York... Is that the Big One I hear in the background? Bye, you lizard scum! Bye!

  Bill Hicks

  New York, Bye, Scum

  "Arizona Bay". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1997.

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• People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Home, School

  "Confrontation with reality". Margaret Thatcher's speech to the Conservative Party Conference at Winter Gardens, Blackpool, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 14, 1977.

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• White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

  Jan Tschichold

  White, Space, Design

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• The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red []. This design is symbolic; it represents the five continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colours are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at the present time.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Blue, Yellow, White

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• I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people the worlds would have produced. If you put Ged to grow up on Anarres or Shevek in Earthsea, they would be the same people, the backgrounds made the people, which of course you see all the time in mainstream fiction, but it's rare in SF.

  Jo Walton

  Growing Up, Real, People

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• In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)

  Joe Manchin

  People, Nra, Checks

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• Obviously in the Senate we have all types of different people, all kinds of different folks that have come from all types of different backgrounds - and I think that’s part of that sense of entitlement that he gives off is that, almost like, I served my country, let me into the Senate. But that’s not how it works in Arkansas.

  Mark Pryor

  Country, Thinking, Giving

  "Is Cotton Putting It Away?" by Ramesh Ponnuru, www.nationalreview.com. March 5, 2014.

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• Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

  John M. Ford

  Games, Creating, Surfing

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• To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Stars, Simple, Pale Yellow

  Vincent van Gogh (1929). “Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889”

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• When, in the year 1913, in my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field, the critics and, along with them, the public sighed: 'Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert .... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background!'

  Kazimir Malevich

  Squares, White, Black

  "The Non-Objective World: The Manifesto of Suprematism". Book by Kasimir Malevich, Courier Corporation, p. 68, 2003.

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• Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when there was so much work to do. Men didn't understand that there was nothing big enough to exempt you from your obligations, which began as soon as the sun rose over the paper company and ended only after you'd finished the day's chores and fell exhausted into sleep against the background noise of I-94.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Passion, Sleep, Men

  Bonnie Jo Campbell (2009). “American Salvage: Stories”, p.35, Wayne State University Press

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• Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

  Travis Tritt

  Bigs, Bluegrass

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• I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

  Shannon Miller

  School, Law, Practice

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• It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.

  Roger Waters

  Home, Mad, Track

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• The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by 'In Place of Strife'.

  Andrew Marr

  Country, Clever, Government

  Andrew Marr (2009). “A History of Modern Britain”, p.268, Pan Macmillan

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• It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

  David Chalmers

  Helping, Language, Speak

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