#ground

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#background #character #fiction #had #i

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings. ↗

— Jay London

#father #me #mood #mood swings #playground

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#again #clause #commerce #conservatives #court

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#although #art #background #commercial #hell

I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#accessible #background #beauty #class background #coming

Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience. ↗

— Gustav Krupp

#appointed #armed #armed forces #basic #experience

I'm so grounded, it's sad. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#i #sad

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

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#animal #bad #belief #believe #credulous