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I came from a privileged background, which I am entirely grateful for, but it played a part in my feeling that I couldn't complain about my own emotions.
Adwoa Aboah
Grateful
Emotions
Feeling
Own
Complain
Background
About
Entirely
My Own
Part
Am
Came
Privileged
Which
Played
So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas.
Ai Weiwei
Life
Political
Old
Internet
Three
My Life
Living
Thinking
Liberal
Later
Background
States
Circumstance
Ideas
Course
Parts
Exercise
Opinion
Equipped
Exile
Years
Very
Quite
Maybe
Cannot
Then
Really
United
United States
Earlier
You can't fake comedy. You can't make it look beautiful or put an interesting bit of music on in the background: funny can only be funny if you're funny.
Aisling Bea
Funny
Beautiful
Music
You
Comedy
Background
Bit
Only
Put
Look
Make
Fake
Interesting
All women, regardless of her economic status or racial background, have a right to vote, and no politician or regressive law should prevent her from doing so.
Al Sharpton
Vote
Women
Law
Politician
Background
Status
All Women
Prevent
Economic
Doing
Regardless
Racial
Should
Her
Right
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
Alan Garner
Time
Space
Long
Long Time
Back
Background
Narrow
Traditions
Oral
Going
Which
Inherited
Deep
Set
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.
Alan Guth
Complicated
Space
Background
Would
Something
More
Empty
Than
Person
Just
Happen
Which
Average
Realize
Average Person
Certainly
Things
Things Happen
I came from a socially deprived background when I was 15, 16 years old, but one thing I knew was one - you don't abuse a policeman, and two - you don't steal things.
Alan Sugar
You
Old
Background
One Thing
Steal
Knew
Abuse
Policeman
Came
Years
Deprived
Thing
Socially
Things
Two
My brothers and I were raised by our parents to respect everyone regardless of background or race.
Alan Wilson
Respect
Parents
Everyone
Our
Background
Brothers
Were
Regardless
Race
Raised
My girlfriend comes from a farming background and I spend a lot of time at her farm doing farming stuff. When you're pulling lambs out, or weighing them or worming them or doing whatever you do to sheep you're not thinking about Brett Lee.
Alastair Cook
Time
You
Sheep
Whatever
Farm
Thinking
Spend
Background
Out
Girlfriend
About
Weighing
Stuff
Doing
Lee
Lot
Lambs
Them
Farming
Her
Pulling
It's not healthy to obsess over every data point, every review or reader comment. I think the first few times you see someone writing about you, you have this massive emotional response to it. But after a while, it all just fades into the background noise.
Alastair Reynolds
You
Noise
Writing
First
Healthy
Few
Every
Think
Background
Response
See
About
Someone
Data
Point
Emotional
Fades
Obsess
Over
Massive
Reader
Review
Comment
Times
Just
After
While
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.
Alden Nowlan
Poverty
Gone
Think
Background
Negroes
Rural
About
Only
Write
Writers
Come
Been
North
North American
American
Who
American Writers
Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.
Alex Campbell
Attitude
Change
Past
Few
Dramatic
Dramatic Change
Background
Rush
Part
Towards
Over
Prince
Perhaps
Because
Years
Edward
Past Few Years
Very
So-Called
Sensed
Modernization
Even
I see I'm changing the game and opening doors for others, from my beginning from the east end of London. It's not a sob story; it made me the person I am today. It's seeing kids from any area or background you're from. There's a chance; you can make it.
Alex Scott
Today
Me
You
Game
Made
Beginning
Doors
Changing
Others
Background
Kids
East
See
London
Seeing
Area
Opening
Make
Am
End
Person
Any
Story
Sob
Chance
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
Future
Me
Women
School
Singing
Background
Kid
Unpopular
Scene
Voice
Had
Sopranos
Singer
Singing Voice
Became
Because
Ethnic
Ethnic Background
Rescued
Who
Fascinated
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
Education
Fashion
Business
Law
School
Background
Brother
Proper
Had
None
Us
Worked
Production
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
Work
Day
You
Class
Every Day
Treat
Job
Every
Think
Complain
Background
Had
Nobody
Learned
Protestant
Real
Still
Go
Were
Real Job
Up
Irish
Get
Same
Quite
Middle
Middle Class
Which
Might
Work Ethic
Ethic
Really
Show
Special
Who
Early
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
Work
You
Top
Background
Out
Could
Had
Instantly
Because
Material
Coming
Doing
Were
Commercial
Improv
List
Loved
Then
Shot
Elevate
Dallas
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
Character
Suits
Men
Animals
Background
Costumes
Never
Weird
Diagram
Any
Anyone
Acting
Whole
Whom
Played
Fat
Playing
I need quiet when I'm recording because I don't want any noise in the background.
Amber Mark
Noise
Recording
Background
Because
Quiet
Any
Want
Need
I'm one of those lucky guys making a living out of something I really enjoy doing. That's a blessing. But you never know. What if my subsequent book series flops? I don't come from a wealthy background, so I'd be left with no choice. I'd have to go back into banking!
Amish Tripathi
You
Blessing
Book
Enjoy
Living
Back
Background
Those
Out
No Choice
Wealthy
Something
Guys
Never
Come
Know
Making
Making A Living
Doing
Go
Left
What If
Subsequent
Banking
Really
Choice
Lucky
Series
Flops
In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.
Amish Tripathi
History
Wise
People
Job
Joke
Background
Say
Okay
Would
India
Come
Pragmatic
Up
Privileged
Option
Afford
Did
Irresponsible
Really
Your
Growing
Growing Up
Actual
Thing
Career
My mother came from a very affluent background, very Westernized, while my father was more Eastern. So I've had a very good blend of the East and the West. I guess this has been extremely helpful in making my career and the way I function.
Amitabh Bachchan
Good
Mother
Father
Guess
Way
Background
Extremely
East
Has-Been
Eastern
More
Had
Blend
Making
Came
Been
West
Very
Affluent
While
Helpful
Function
Career
I've got Indian looks, but there is nothing in my background.
Amy Jackson
Nothing
Background
Indian
Looks
Got
I love folk; that's a big part of my background.
Amy Lee
Love
Big
Background
Folk
Part
Big Part
Attacking another American's qualifications solely based on his ethnic background is bigotry. Plain and simple.
Ana Navarro
Simple
Background
Solely
Attacking
Qualifications
Another
His
American
Plain
Ethnic
Ethnic Background
Based
It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.
Andrew Breitbart
Liberal
Back
Background
System
Embarrassing
Possible
About
Shallow
Almost
Because
Go
Belief
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