"Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed."

-- Amy Hempel

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“Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.”
“Each person comes to have this musical experience, this moment with us, where they get to sink into our world for a little while. Itâ€™s this very unhurried world. Itâ€™s fairly quiet, itâ€™s contemplative, but it can be quite panoramic. I think people think interesting thoughts at our shows, and they go rather deeply into some personal experience of their own. Iâ€™m really proud that our music seems to connect, because itâ€™s not for everybody. But for the people that our music works for, it really gets down pretty deep in there.”
“I fell for a boy from the wrong side of the tracks.”
“We are 'writers,' we are not supposed to be interested in filthy lucre, we are supposed to be starry eyed artistes. ... In Reality Land, we all want to maybe put dinner on the table once in a while, but in Fantasy Land, we are not supposed to be even interested in money because we are so caught up in the emotion of it all. That's an illusion, but people like it and it makes us feel holy or something so we all play along.”
“I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.”
“I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and is part of this one guy's life.”
“I'm the crazy girly captain, Remember?”
“If riding were all blue ribbons and bright lights, I would have quit long ago.”

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