#round

If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you. ↗

— Martha Beck

#caring #focused #happy #live #memories

I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can really mess with your sense of self and I feel like coming from the South keeps me pretty grounded. ↗

— Amber Benson

#because #coming #did #feel #gave

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#art #art form #attendance #ever #form

I think I'm fairly good with money, but I've developed some strange tics - in shops I don't like to go to the counter unless I've got at least two things to buy. If I'm walking around with just one thing in my hand I'll put it back and wait a few weeks because that doesn't seem like a proper purchase. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#back #because #buy #counter #developed

I'm recording another demo for another batch of record labels that we'll shop it around to. ↗

— Ahmed Best

#around #batch #demo #i #labels

My dad played music so I was around it at a really young age. ↗

— Shawna Thompson

#around #dad #i #music #played

My background is in musical comedy. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#comedy #musical #musical comedy

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around. ↗

— Bjork

#around #i #i am #most #people

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#as far as #days #einstein #far #frank

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#agricultural #around #beauty #bored #doing