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• I don’t feel ashamed of my wife’s political background, and I don’t think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are.

  Stephen Rea

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• It doesn’t work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you’d do well, most other people don’t. So they offer you something – The Avengers is a good example… I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It’s not even acting.

  Patrick Macnee

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• My background was in performing originally.

  Cy Coleman

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• I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don’t have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.

  Gary Michael Cole

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• I’m just a husband waltzing in the background.

  Bruce Greenwood

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• At the time, I didn’t know that bass would not be enough for me. I’m not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.

  Eberhard Weber

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• How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.

  Paul Simon

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• I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

  Michele Bachmann

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• Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it’s bold. It’s out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it’s hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

  Newt Gingrich

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• One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

  Arthur Christopher Benson

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