Ninety percent of people support background checks. Which means even people who can't pass a background check support background checks.
the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.
Choice is always performed against a background of habit.
I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.
People have a right to protest peacefully, but there's absolutely no excuse for anyone to be conducting a campaign of intimidation that may be directed at anyone because of their religion or because of their background.
The idea of listening to a record that's in one generic style, it becomes quite boring after the third or fourth song, in my opinion. It just becomes a bit. . . when you've got the same arrangement on a song, your ears get tired. I come from a DJ background and it's about trying to put songs together that don't fit necessarily but you can get away with putting them next to each other. I think of myself as a punter and ask myself: what would I like to hear?
It used to be that your bloodlines dictated who you were. But the U. S. became the land of the self-made man, in which not only did you make a fortune but you could make up everything else about yourself as well. You move into a new town with a spurious pedigreed background and you just make yourself up.
I'd had the theater background for so long that I know that world inside out; I just didn't know the pace of how a TV set works, like how a show shoots.
My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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.
Many of the people I've worked with over the years came from a sketch-comedy background or an improv background, and I've learned a lot from them.
He [Rubio] is so knowledgeable about this issue. . . I'm glad to see somebody with his background step forward and say it's important and we need to look at it.
Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.
Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.
Christopher Walken was probably the most experienced dancing partner I've had in movies, because he has the same background as I do. He's from theatre, Broadway and off-Broadway, and we both shared that.
My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.
Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.
My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.
I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.
I had a very colorless background, and when I left Ohio and moved to England, nobody knew who I was and I had a real freedom. I could be free to experiment and experience things and I liked that a lot.