"Your life can become the background for the art you create."
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"I come from rather an international, or in other words, a cosmopolitan background."
"I love folk; that's a big part of my background."
"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."
"Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for."
"I have a strong art-history background."
"I don't know much about my biological background."
"Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white."
"I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background."
"I'm not a dishwasher anymore. But I'm still from Sangamon Street."
"I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background."
"Background for Humans"
"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."
"Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life."
"I wasn't a great background singer."
"The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense."
"You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering."
"I'm of Arab background."
"U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here."
"O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?"
"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."