#background

I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish. ↗

— Marcel Marceau

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My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

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I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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Horses will never be my career. It's just a big passion of mine, and one that will always be there in the background, but football is my main passion and everyone knows that. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

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I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age! ↗

— Bill Paxton

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It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission. ↗

— Sally Ride

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See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers. ↗

— John Sladek

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To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

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