I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.
Coco Lee

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.
Robert Sheckley

I wasn't a great background singer.
Faith Hill

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.
Annie Lennox

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.
Jackie DeShannon

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
Jim Valvano

I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
William Faulkner

I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.
Bruce Greenwood

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed.
Mario Lopez

I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album.
Melissa Joan Hart

I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.
Marvin Cohen

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

If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.
Sarah Zettel

If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.
Frederick Pollock

In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
Eberhard Weber

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.
Hervey Allen

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background.
Mario Lopez

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
William James

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.
Sophia Bush

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