"My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that."

-- Nina Blackwood

#Reading Quotes #Passion Quotes #Musical Quotes

“Art is the most beautiful of all lies.”
“It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.”
“Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.”
“As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.”

Source : Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.466, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.”
“To reverence the impersonal creation instead of the personal God who created us is a perversion designed for escaping moral accountability to the Creator. God indicts those who worship the creation instead of its Creator (Rom 1:18-23); and warns of the corruption of morals and behavior which results.”
“The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to their reason. Think things out before they act. But maybe they never heard what Dr. London told me one, Freud said that for the little things in life we should react according to our reason. But for really big decisions, we should heed what our unconscious tells us.”

Source : Erich Segal (1977). “Oliver's Story”
“One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.”

Source : FaceBook post by Oliver Stone from Apr 27, 2012

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