"A sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again & again â€” in a sketch there is nothing but the one state of mind â€” that which you were in at the time."

-- John Constable

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“In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
“Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.”
“To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.”
“Music is one of my big interests - I once had a rather fanciful ambition to be a singer - and of course music is philosophically fascinating. What it is for music to express emotion strikes me as one of the most difficult questions - it's hard to say what it precisely means, although it plainly does mean something. But whenever I have tried to say something about this, it has come out as either banal or pretentious or both.”
“Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.”
“Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.”
“When 'Supernatural' came out, there were a lot of procedurals and you were either a doctor or a cop or lawyer, otherwise the show didn't stay on TV. And then we came around, and I don't want to say we were trailblazers, but we found our niche.”
“I like to listen the blues and some classical.”

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