#background

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#academic #background #culture #especially #ivy

I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#background #barry #bass #bass player #bit

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#beings #dear #early #enough #feel

Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be a lawyer. You don't need to have some professional degree. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#articulate #background #believe #certain #degree

I'm just a husband waltzing in the background. ↗

— Bruce Greenwood

#husband #i #just #waltzing

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie! ↗

— Breaux Greer

#character #else #here #i #movie

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant. ↗

— W. E. B. Griffin

#i #military #my own #own #sergeant

If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#classic #films #focus #hollywood #hollywood films

I am myself of a mixed background. ↗

— Quiara Alegria Hudes

#background #i #i am #mixed #myself

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#class #education #even #family #frees