Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.
My background is full of pain. My mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and our whole family was killed off. Then early on your father leaves and all you've got is your mother, and I was an only child. Then you come to a new country and I can't speak English.
When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.
A director can come from anywhere, but having a story background, if you have nothing else, is probably a good thing to have because it's really the one tool you need.
The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.
Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.
Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey. ' It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.
I kind of make my life an open book as long as the left exists to use Saul Alinsky tactics to destroy people, your background is going to be fair game. If you're a human being who has behaved as a human, they're going to use anything that you've done wrong against you. I've lived my public life as openly as possible so that they can't rip something out of my closet to use against me.
Whatever our background, culture or race, what rewards us most powerfully and consistently are the most deceptively simple abilities of all: the ability to be kind.
Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.
The middle class is not doing well, and trade policy might have something to do with that, and so someone who is going to be fixated on those things, who has a business background, has some appeal.
Be less about protecting any type of identity affiliated to a country or even ethnic background. Be more about the fact that we're here for a short time and Heaven is going to be a rainbow of people, multiculture, every generation.
Nothing about character is hereditary. Everyone, regardless of social background, financial status, race, or sex, enters the world with an equal opportunity to become a person of great or petty character.
What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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.
I don't come from a privileged background.
The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over me than I took over it.
I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.