Alicia Keys
Singer, Songwriter, Actress
"Your life can become the background for the art you create."
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Backgrounds
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Paul Walker
Actor
"I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English."
Robert Henri
Artist
"A weak background is a deadly thing."
Gustave Flaubert
Novelist
"My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real."
Barbara Jordan
Politician, Lawyer
"We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds."
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"I come from rather an international, or in other words, a cosmopolitan background."
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"I love folk; that's a big part of my background."
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"And to improve access to the UK publishing industry - I'm hoping to set up an internship or work experience for someone from a low-income background, as soon as we have the funds. While we don't have the funds, we won't have an intern."
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"Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for."
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"I have a strong art-history background."
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"I don't know much about my biological background."
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"Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white."
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"I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background."
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"I'm not a dishwasher anymore. But I'm still from Sangamon Street."
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"I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background."
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"Background for Humans"
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"I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest."
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"Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life."
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"I wasn't a great background singer."
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"The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense."
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"You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering."
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"I'm of Arab background."
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"U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here."
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"O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?"
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"My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing."
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