Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.
There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships
Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity.
Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.
It's nothing but a matter of seeing, thinking, and interest. That's what makes a good photograph. And then rejecting anything that would be bad for the picture. The wrong light, the wrong background, time and so on. Just don't do it, not matter how beautiful the subject is.
I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.
A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.
My background is in musical comedy.
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.
I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.
It was great to be around [Tony Walters] - he was like a father figure to me especially in my athletic background. That is a person I will never forget and share in all of my victories since I left there until I am done.
I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation of a scene. I come from a theater background, so I'm used to a lot of repetition, and I'm used to really attacking something over and over and over again.
When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.
What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication--because, of course, astrology is rubbish.
We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is good in diversity.
I don't come from a privileged background.
I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.
You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.