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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

~Edith Wharton

Topics: American Background Landscape Mind

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Being an immigrant and living in England, I feel like I lived in two worlds. There was the world that, when I was at school with my friends, was very English, and then I'd go home to another country, with exotic foods and colours. I have a sense of colour pairings, and that came from my background, I think.

~Edward Enninful

Topics: Another Background Being Came Colour Colours Country England English Exotic Feel Foods Friends Go Go Home Home Immigrant Like Lived Living School Sense Then Think Two Very World Worlds I Think I Feel I Feel Like

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I'm not from a retail background, but I am a shopper.

~Edward Lampert

Topics: Am Background Retail I Am

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History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp - describe the West. Techno-thriller readers expect to learn something about technology from their fiction.

~Edward M. Lerner

Topics: About Background Crime Crime Fiction Describe Expect Fiction Forensics Historical Historical Fiction History Learn Mystery Police Procedure Readers Something Technology West Westerns

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For me, playing music while I write is important. Several of the romantic scenes in 'Paris' were written with Debussy's 'String Quartet,' his 'L'Apres-midi d'une Faune,' or Canteloube's 'Songs of the Auvergne' playing in the background.

~Edward Rutherfurd

Topics: Background His Important Me Music Paris Playing Quartet Romantic Scenes Several Songs String Were While Write Written I Write

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I really prefer light-eyed models, They photograph more easily. Of course, I come from a light-eyed background, so maybe that influenced my taste.

~Eileen Ford

Topics: Background Come Course Easily Influenced Maybe Models More Photograph Prefer Really Taste

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Los Angeles is such a great meritocracy. Where can someone with my background - don't have the right family background, the right religion, the right provenance or whatever you want to call it - I come here and I'm accepted. The city's been good to me. And I want to give back.

~Eli Broad

Topics: Accepted Angeles Back Background Been Call City Come Family Give Good Great Here Los Los Angeles Me Religion Right Someone Want Whatever Where You

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Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

~Eli Broad

Topics: Any Appetite Appropriate Art Arts Background Boards Business Discipline Imposing Institutions Lack Often Supporters Tend Unfortunately Well-Meaning Who

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I have a strong art-history background.

~Eli Roth

Topics: Background Strong

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Even in novels where the love relationship isn't the focus, I feel like it's often there, and the background is some barometer of whether this is a happy or sad story or whether this is a successful or unsuccessful life.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Background Barometer Even Feel Focus Happy Life Like Love Novels Often Relationship Sad Some Story Successful Unsuccessful Where Whether I Feel I Feel Like

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