"And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art."

-- Alan Lomax

#Running Quotes #Art Quotes #Real Quotes

“Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.”

Source : Linda Lael Miller (2011). “Creed's Honor”, p.199, HQN Books
“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourselfâ€”and there isnâ€™t one.”

Source : "Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1963.
“Weigh down your curtains with a proper 5-inch hem. It makes them much more proportioned and professional-looking.”
“Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become.”

Source : "Fictional character: Nick Portokalos". "My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Nia Vardalos: Toula Portokalos", www.imdb.com. 2002.
“I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.”
“The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the early '60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress.”
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
“The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.”

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