#background

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

#backgrounds #been #both #came #college

I come from a traditional theater background. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#come #i #theater #traditional

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#art #art school #background #director #documentary

You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#american #backgrounds #college #compared #different

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

#amount #background #bit #education #educational

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#background #casual #day #divide #elevator

You do tend to miss that repetition of day in and day out in a restaurant. I would like to open someplace where I can get back in touch with that side of my restaurant background. It is something we have plans to do and not sure how or when, but it is not too far away. ↗

— Curtis Stone

#back #background #day #far #far away

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#aristocracy #background #chivalry #civilization #exalted

It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background. ↗

— Hilary Swank

#change #grown #having #humble #i

When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#big #felt #future #huge #legitimate