Background Quotes - page 4

Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions. (Tess Gerritsen)
I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals. View quote
Tippi Hedren
This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions. View quote
Ulrich Beck
Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part. View quote
Walter Jon Williams
With my background and genetic makeup, buddy, you're lucky I'm as normal as I am. (Katra Agrotera) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old. View quote
James Henry Breasted
We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours. View quote
Jean Rhys
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. View quote
John Thomas Sladek
Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks. View quote
John Hume
The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background. View quote
Amy Chua
I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture. (Carl Hiaasen)
If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are. View quote
Carol Vorderman
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason. Two forces within the individual contribute to the development of his conscience and of his morality: reason and sensitivity. View quote
Leon Bourgeois
If I were asked what education should give, I would say it should offer a breadth of view, ease of understanding, tolerance for others, and a background from which the mind can explore in any direction. View quote
Louis L'Amour
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier. View quote
Michael Caine
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. View quote
Lynn Abbey
Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us. View quote
Katherine Dunham
I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays. View quote
Charlie Kaufman
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. View quote
Alden Nowlan
My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera. View quote
Franka Potente
Hitler did not have Mussolini's revolutionary socialist background... Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the 'bourgeoisie' and 'capitalism' and exploited for his purposes the powerful socialist traditions of Germany. The adjectives 'socialist' and 'worker' in the official name of Hitler's party ('The Nationalist-Socialist German Workers' Party') had not merely propagandistic value... On one occasion, in the midst of World War II, Hitler even declared that 'basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same. (Richard Pipes)
We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself. View quote
Paul Dudley White
Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing. View quote
Fay Wray
Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it. View quote
Aaron Tveit
I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career. View quote
Ann Dowd