"Art is not a pastime but a priesthood."

-- Jean Cocteau

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“Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.”
“If you guys are interested in getting any kind of animal, definitely go and adopt.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm a commercial person, not an academic.”
“Perhaps no promise in life is more reassuring than that promise of divine assistance and spiritual guidance in times of need. It is a gift freely given from heaven, a gift that we need from our earliest youth through the very latest days of our lives.”
“What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and exercise powers not warranted by its true meaning, I answer the same as if they should misconstrue or enlarge any other power vested in them . . . the success of the usurpation will depend on the executive and judiciary departments, which are to expound and give effect to the legislative acts; and in a last resort a remedy must be obtained from the people, who can by the elections of more faithful representatives, annul the acts of the usurpers.”
“I'm playing great music with great people and so there's no reason to stop.”

Source : "Air Supply’s Graham Russell on Lost in Love , the Musical". Interview with Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.
“In dreams, through longings, we can seeâ€” All latent in the dust of gold These forests that perhaps could beâ€” But that will never, ever, grow.”
“The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side.”

Source : Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1906). “The Cause of an Ice Age”

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