"In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event."

-- Stewart Copeland

#People Quotes #Opera Quotes #Want Quotes

“It took me a while to accept that I'm not going to have the curves other girls get.”

Source : "90210's Shenae Grimes Don't Call Me Skinny!". Interview with Monica Rizzo, people.com. December 8, 2008.
“The secret of happiness is curiosity”

Source : Norman Douglas (2014). “South Wind”, p.43, Courier Corporation
“No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.”

Source : "The Tale of Genji". Book by Murasaki Shikibu, Ch. 17: Eawase (trans. Royall Tyler), 2002.
“I love knowing that I am simultaneously as big as the universe and yet merely a heap of star dust.”

Source : Jill Bolte Taylor (2008). “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey”, p.159, Penguin
“Literature is air, and Im suffocating in mediocrity.”
“I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.”
“Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. Longchenpa Let's stuff our eyes with wonder, let's live as if we'd drop dead in ten seconds. Let's see the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
“I'm allergic to rocks hitting me in the face.”

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