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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A. C. Benson
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I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.
Buchi Emecheta
Africa
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Ask for feedback from people with diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you’re at the top of the chain, sometimes people won’t give you honest feedback because they’re afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources.
Steve Jobs
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.
Lisa Kleypas
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I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
T. D. Jakes
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
Uma Thurman
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
Salma Hayek
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I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.
Emma Watson
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John Locke
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I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.
Khaled Hosseini
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I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.
Kid Rock
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Blues
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William Faulkner
Inclined
Think
Military
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I've got a very interesting background.
Jackie Chan
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Got
Interesting
Very
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Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.
Adam Savage
Always
Apparent
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Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.
H. P. Lovecraft
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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.
P. G. Wodehouse
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There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
P. G. Wodehouse
Ssound
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But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.
Francisco Goya
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Masses
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While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at different angles to use later.
Fred Perry
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I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.
Mariah Carey
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Anytime
Anywhere
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Edith Wharton
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
J. K. Rowling
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My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.
Nick Cave
Also
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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
Around
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I get a lot of comics, and I can look at a comic and tell immediately whether I'll enjoy it or not. There are elements in the stories that I have no rapport with. I see dirty language, I see sleazy backgrounds; I see it reflected in the movies, the movies are comics to me. And I don't see a sleazy world. I see hope. I see a positive world.
Jack Kirby
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A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.
Italo Calvino
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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
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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
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It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.
George Lopez
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I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.
Keanu Reeves
Acting
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Filters
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I was moved by the 'Lovings' story because of my own background as a mixed-race person.
Ruth Negga
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Because
Moved
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The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.
Javier Bardem
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The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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My life
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I had grown up in brutal poverty, and saw touch as a privilege for those with less traumatic backgrounds.
Charles Onyango-Obbo
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I believe it is up to each of us to let go of the memories and the scars of your experiential background, ultra-critical family, ridiculing friends.
Lateef Adedimeji
I believe
Let go
The memories
The scars
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Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.
Willa Cather
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obstetric fistula is preventable and it must end! All mothers, regardless of social background,should have timely access to quality maternal health care services.
Stephanie Okereke Linus
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Everyone has flaws. For this guy, it is his finances. For another it might be hygiene, personality, temper, looks, worldview, background, intellect, laziness and so on. Should a flaw make you run away from a potential mate?
Godman Akinlabi
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After all, children are children no matter their background.
Julie Andrews
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Matter
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Anything is possible. My background is a bad background, but a lot of people said I couldn't do it. You can do anything if you put your mind to it.
Michael Oher
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