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A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a…

— Anita Shreve

I just love football too much to not be around it.

— Justin Herbert

You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey…

— Artie Lange

I wake up around 8 o'clock in the morning. I am an early riser.

— Wendy Williams

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

— Edward Hirsch

I'm not specifically attached to anything other than trying to, in my personal life, fight against where I see right wing thinking.…

— Janeane Garofalo

I was born in Texas, but I grew up outside the Boston area and bounced around a lot.

— Ryan Serhant

I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and…

— Natasha Lyonne

I'm not out running around all the time. I'm not partying constantly and constantly battling myself. I'm with someone, and we are…

— Johnny Knoxville

I have to strip away all the layers when I'm writing the song. I have to cut through all these layers of…

— John Grant

My father was a preacher so I wouldn't sing at all when he was around, but as soon as he locked the…

— John Witherspoon

We're all in denial from time to time. We all see things that are too painful to really deal with. But this…

— Michael Specter

I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is…

— Jess Walter

I was growing up around Leeds and I idolised Leeds. I went to Huddersfield and thought it was a good chance but…

— Kalvin Phillips

My entire career has revolved around playing hard.

— Alex Caruso

I just want everyone I am playing with to be fully switched on, really on it. You don't have to be the…

— Fabian Delph

I remember thinking when I was younger - we used to take holidays to Spain and France, and I just thought I…

— William Moseley

Planets look about the same here as they do to you on the Earth because we really aren't that much closer. Our…

— Sunita Williams

I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize…

— Adam Yauch

When I left university, I idled around without focus for much too long.

— Kevin McCloud

I like revival 2000s and '90s pieces that have anything lace or beaded, mostly circling around grunge. I get a lot of…

— Alex Consani

You have to convince those around you that you're worth their time and energy, and that can be really taxing.

— Bishop Briggs

If you ask anyone around the cricket grounds, they will say I always sign loads of autographs and thank the ladies for…

— Shane Warne

A major impediment to economic advancement around the world is the fact that the vast majority of humans are unbanked.

— Patrick M. Byrne

The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to let me be…

— Jonny Greenwood

These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a bipartisan spirit and with…

— Susan Collins

I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels…

— Quentin Bryce

Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it.

— David Pratt

I'd always loved technology. It's something I always messed around with in computer labs at school. So I glommed onto it very…

— Daniel Suarez

I just grew up around Vandy.

— Nate Bargatze

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

— Louis C. K

I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely…

— Alexandra Wentworth

It's always true, and in all the arts. When one guy's terrific, there will be a lot of other terrific guys around.…

— William Goldman

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

— Drew Carey

Changes to weather patterns that move crop production areas around - we'll adapt to that. It's an engineering problem, and it has…

— Rex Tillerson

My mum and dad aren't actors, but we all sit around doing impressions.

— Sophie Rundle

Eyebrows are really important because they structure the face. In school it was funny because I was always the one walking around…

— Rita Ora

With TV shows that film in London, you're pretty much around for your kids, so that's good.

— Tamzin Outhwaite

Whenever I'm doing a collection, I'm inspired by the world around us.

— Virgil Abloh

I feel very lucky that I'm left-footed because the number of us around is very small.

— Gareth Barry