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My singing voice had rescued me from the scene I was in at school - I was an unpopular, bookish kid who had an indeterminate ethnic background. I became fascinated with women sopranos because they had a future that I didn't as a singer.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Background Became Because Ethnic Fascinated Future Had Kid Me Rescued Scene School Singer Singing Sopranos Unpopular Voice Who Women

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I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.

~Alexander Wang

Topics: Background Brother Business Education Fashion Had Law None Production Proper School Us Worked

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In 'Gravity,' nearly everything is a metaphor for the main character. The way I tend to approach a film is that character and background are equally important; one informs the other. Here, Sandra Bullock is caught between Earth and the void of the universe, just floating there in between. We use the debris as a metaphor for adversity.

~Alfonso Cuaron

Topics: Adversity Approach Background Between Caught Character Earth Equally Everything Film Floating Gravity Here Important Informs Just Main Main Character Metaphor Nearly Other Sandra Tend Universe Use Void Way

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Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Background Emerges Every Explicitly Imaginative Never Philosophy Reasoning Secret Some Train Which

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I know where I am headed and how will I evolve. There's nothing stopping you. I don't have a family background on films, and I will need to work for it.

~Ali Fazal

Topics: Am Background Evolve Family Films Headed How Know Need Nothing Stopping Where Will Work You I Am

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I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Background Class Complain Day Early Ethic Every Every Day Get Go Had Irish Job Learned Middle Middle Class Might Nobody Protestant Quite Real Real Job Really Same Show Special Still Think Treat Up Were Which Who Work Work Ethic You

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Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm very against the celebrity culture that wants to say: 'this is a genius, this is one person who has done something brilliant.' There are always a hundred people in the background who have helped to make it.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Against Always Around Background Brilliant Celebrity Celebrity Culture Culture Done Even Genius Getting Helped Hundred Make Need Own People Person Poems Say Something Talk Things Very Wants Who Words Writing You Your

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My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself.

~Alicia Keys

Topics: Able America Any Background Black Broad Colour Cultures Different Different Cultures Even How Made Me Mixed Myself Person Regard Relate Seen Woman

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Coming out of Dallas and doing commercial work in Dallas - if you had improv background in Dallas, then you were instantly shot to the top of the list of commercial bookings because they loved improvisers because you could elevate the material.

~Allison Tolman

Topics: Background Because Coming Commercial Could Dallas Doing Elevate Had Improv Instantly List Loved Material Out Shot Then Top Were Work You

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My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.

~Allison Williams

Topics: Acting Animals Any Anyone Background Character Costumes Diagram Fat Men Never Played Playing Suits Weird Whole Whom

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