What we do in Connecticut is ban assault weapons. We ban high-capacity magazines. We have true universal background checks, and we require everybody to get a permit from their police department before they can carry a pistol.
I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.
I'm a pro-growth, small-government conservative with a background in free enterprise.
I'd come from a background in New York of picketing and protesting.
My background is in social work and psychotherapy.
By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.
I have a quantitative background, but really, derivatives appealed to me because they require so much creativity.
I can't stand recipes that don't have background.
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.
My grandmother was a classical pianist, so I grew up with Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven. I studied piano as a kid. My musical background and upbringing was very much a mix.
I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.
I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.
I come from an academic background, and I have a genuine interest in social change.
'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.
My background is in psychology - that's what my bachelor's degree is from, and my specialization.
My films often have a spiritual dimension which comes from my Muslim background, and I'm happy to tackle that in cinema.
I've always had an affinity for writers who have a poetry background, so I always liked Tennessee Williams.
A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.