#around

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#before #began #five #four #i

Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#around #because #certainly #comes #development

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#concept #even #feeling #i #i can

Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one. ↗

— Method Man

#around #best #came #dustin #script

The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#available #buildings #changed #hasn #haven

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth. ↗

— Jared Leto

#around #artists #celebrated #child #clear

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. ↗

— David Letterman

#cities #great #leads #make #move

The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been. ↗

— Al Lewis

#because #been #class #creative #down

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#class #democracy #different #faith #going

It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#because #busy #film #film set #good