One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star - NietzscheI have said before that metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. - Milan Kundera
Cleopatra, Shlomo Carlebach, Hannah Arendt, Sylvia Plath, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cinderella, Sara Bareilles...
Anything with a primal bass beat and/or an incredible and compelling vocal talent.I also take serious guilty pleasure in singer-songwriter acoustic romantic nonsense.
Shawshank Redemption, Blue Collar Comedy Tour, Mean Girls, Dirty Dancing, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Dazed and Confused, Good Will Hunting, The Breakfast Club, Secretary, When Harry Met Sally, Boondock Saints, Hotel Rwanda, Amadeus, Bonjour Monsieur ShlomiI grew up with Beverly Hills Cop, Blues Brothers, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Top Gun, Crocodile Dundee, and Kelly's Heroes (if you know what that is, we HAVE to be best friends, you have no choice).
Written on the Body, Madame Bovary, As a Driven Leaf, Phantom Tollbooth, Giovanni's Room, The Little Engine That Could, Stone Butch Blues, Love in the Time of Cholera...
People with purpose and passion.