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No agency is more acutely aware of how potentially damning and politically sensitive background investigations can be than the FBI; it conducts those investigations, after all.
Tucker Carlson
Damning
Background
Those
More
Potentially
Investigations
How
Than
Politically
After
Sensitive
Agency
Aware
'If The Weather Permits' was closer to my heart because it was a woman closer to my age, with a contemporary background like mine. I felt for that character. I've seen so many women like that - smart women who are a wreck when it comes to their emotional lives.
Twinkle Khanna
Character
Woman
Heart
Age
Women
Smart
Weather
Seen
Mine
Background
Wreck
Emotional
Like
Contemporary
Because
Felt
Permits
Closer
Who
Many
Lives
Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.
Twyla Tharp
Time
Gift
Father
Extraordinary
Harmony
Virtuoso
Background
Melodic
Only
Piano
Had
He
Along
Well
Became
Doing
His
Lines
Mozart
Four
By The Time
You hear about our conservative background and know that we're Christian guys, but we're not timid at all. I will take anyone on when it comes to outworking them or putting on a better show or standing up for people who are being put down.
Tyler Joseph
You
People
Conservative
Better
Will
Down
Christian
Our
Background
About
Guys
Take
Put
Putting
Know
Hear
Up
Timid
Being
Anyone
Them
Show
Standing
Who
Standing Up
I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.
Valerie Trierweiler
Background
Seeing
Staying
Observer
Like
Am
Committed
Going
I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
Valorie Curry
Love
Opportunity
Back
Background
Would
Staying
New
Get
Yorker
New Yorker
Which
Theater
Here
I have a lot of good role models in my family for things off the court - like my older sister, who's a lawyer. I don't like writing papers, but she's helped me a lot. It's nice to have an art and business background because they tie together perfectly.
Venus Williams
Art
Good
Family
Me
Business
Together
Writing
Lawyer
Sister
Nice
Older
Background
Papers
Perfectly
Like
She
Tie
Because
Court
Lot
Off
Role
Role Models
Models
Helped
Older Sister
Things
Eventually I just want to live a normal life. I want to get married and have children and cook, wash... all the things that I do now. My background is very normal and steady, and that's what I like.
Vicky McClure
Life
Live
Background
Married
Steady
Like
Normal
Normal Life
Very
Get
Get Married
Just
Children
Want
Cook
Wash
Now
Eventually
Things
I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a very normal stable background and had an amazing childhood, and I haven't got any complaints really.
Vicky McClure
Dark
Amazing
Past
Own
Complaints
Background
Draw
My Own
Had
Tales
Always
Got
Been
Normal
Very
Person
Any
Stable
Childhood
Really
Happy-Go-Lucky
I start out giving characters archetypes and parameters. Once I know the basics and have a rudimentary model, it's easier to carve unique curves and edges. It's quite easy to guess how a character is going to react if you know their background, and at a certain point, you realize you understand them personally.
Victoria Aveyard
Character
You
Giving
Rudimentary
Guess
Once
Background
Easier
Out
Characters
Easy
Parameters
Carve
Archetypes
Point
Know
React
Edges
Understand
How
Model
Going
Quite
Curves
Them
Personally
Realize
Certain
Certain Point
Unique
Start
Basics
I come from a cycling background. I happened to be good at it; the opportunities came my way. It wasn't something I necessarily searched to be involved in; it wasn't a dream. I just had an opportunity which you couldn't refuse.
Victoria Pendleton
Good
You
Opportunities
Opportunity
Cycling
Way
Background
Dream
Something
Had
Come
Involved
Came
Just
Refuse
Happened
Which
Necessarily
I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
Viggo Mortensen
Mind
Other
Background
Find
About
Tend
Open
Open Mind
Cultures
Interesting
Multicultural
Things
Hungary has no raw materials and no major energy sources; we have some agricultural background. So what we produce here in Hungary is the result of our labor and minds, and then we have to sell it to the world. If we are not able to do that, if we are not innovative enough, if we are not modern and open enough, we can't do that.
Viktor Orban
World
Result
Hungary
Energy
Enough
Innovative
Our
Minds
Background
Able
Some
Open
Raw
Raw Materials
Major
Materials
Sources
Sell
Labor
Modern
Energy Sources
Produce
Then
Agricultural
Here
Although I don't come from a musical background, I was given piano lessons along with my sisters, but I wasn't what you would call a good student. I tended to write songs rather than do scales.
Vonda Shepard
Good
You
Musical
Background
Scales
Would
Rather
Given
Good Student
Write
Piano
Student
Piano Lessons
Songs
Along
Come
Call
Although
Than
Sisters
Lessons
Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every single, you know, ideology, we have every single background. However, when it comes to the screen, we have one code of ethics and one code of conduct.
Wadah Khanfar
You
World
Ethics
Diversity
Single
Ideology
Every
Our
Background
Arab
Arab World
Know
However
Conduct
Representation
Nationality
Screen
Newsroom
Al
Code
Al Jazeera
Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.
Walter Jon Williams
Writing
World
Made
Invent
Background
Easier
Characters
Generally
Part
Shared
Because
Within
Limitations
Any
Which
Working
Hardest
Hardest Part
I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.
Wang Jianlin
Family
Strong
Military
Soldier
Background
Born
Chose
Facts tell us that criminalizing private transfers of firearms among family members and friends under a universal background check system would do nothing to prevent 'gun violence,' and importantly, would not have prevented the profound tragedies that gun banners use to promote such a system.
Wayne LaPierre
Family
Gun
Nothing
Background
System
Members
Tell
Would
Promote
Prevent
Firearms
Facts
Check
Importantly
Private
Tragedies
Friends
Family Members
Transfer
Banner
Us
Use
Among
Universal
Profound
Violence
We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere, for anyone.
Wayne LaPierre
Gun
Mandatory
Every
Think
Background
Instant
Checks
Loopholes
Provide
Sale
Anyone
Anywhere
Show
Reasonable
You know, I find it so difficult being a... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.
Werner Klemperer
You
People
Matter
Difficult
Background
Members
Would
Find
Cast
Fact
Never
Never Expect
Leading
Know
Most
Expect
Did
Being
Little
Them
Show
Play
I came from a very strict background.
Wes Craven
Strict
Background
Came
Very
I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.
Wilbur Smith
Books
Background
Read
Lot
African
Biographies
My martial arts background is Tae Kwon Do.
Will Yun Lee
Background
Martial
Martial Arts
Arts
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
William James
Mind
Ought
Background
Dim
We Cannot
Somehow
Know
Doing
Cannot
Start
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.
William Kempe
Theatre
Try
Nine
Dancer
Background
Classics
Shakespeare
Somewhat
Contemporary
Learn
Read
Unusual
Does
Ballet
Ballet Dancer
Years
Trained
Eight
Worked
Actor
How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.
William Morris Hunt
You
White
Background
Visible
Evident
Drawing
See
Make
Around
How
Line
Egg
Against
Things
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