"When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description."

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Source : Martín Prechtel (2013). “The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form”, p.83, North Atlantic Books

Martin Prechtel

#Music Quotes #Grief Quotes #Singers Quotes

“Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, m.imdb.com.
“You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.”
“I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.”
“Science is a truth that is true no matter what, no matter when and for all time and science as the kind of gospel truth replaces the gospel, which was religion.”
“Most of all, I loved seeing Princess Leia strangling you at the end of Return of the Jedi.”
“The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.”
“one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.”
“The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.”

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