"Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity."

-- Thomas Moore

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“Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.”
“Was the Buffalo chicken wing invented when Teressa Bellissimo thought of splitting it in half and deep frying it and serving it with celery and blue-cheese dressing? Was it invented when John Young started using mambo sauce and thought of elevating wings into a specialty?”
“But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.”
“Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for the world. The work of the artist is an expression of hope - it is homage to the value of human life, and it is vital to society. Art is a sacred expression of human creativity that shares the same ontological ground as all human work. Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.”
“To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.”
“There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.”

Source : "A Chameleon on Show" by Benjamin Ivry, forward.com. January 12, 2011.
“Dredd was a weird little out-of-the-blue thing for me.”
“You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.”

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