"Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it."

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Source : Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. December 12, 2011.

Jeff Tweedy

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“We, the women and men of the Church, we are in the middle of a love story: each of us is a link in this chain of love. And if we do not understand this, we have understood nothing of what the Church is....”
“And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. My legs are programmed to trot briskly and my arms to pump up and down like pistons, but I force myself to stroll past the stalls and pavement cafes. To enjoy just being somewhere, rather than rushing from somewhere, to somewhere. Inhaling deep lungfuls of air, instead of my usual shallow breaths. I take a moment to just stop and look around me. And smile to myself. For the first time in a long time, I can, quite literally, smell the coffee.”
“Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.”
“The empire of Christ the King includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the Church, have been led astray by error, or have been cut off from her by schism, but also all those who are outside the Christian faith: so that truly the whole of mankind is subject to the power of Jesus Christ.”
“Some people have got advice, some people have got horror stories. I like people that look you in the eye with a glow and say "It's gonna be cool."”
“When I was a kid, I loved horror films. I used to stay up on Saturday night to watch.”

Source : "Richard Jenkins on Cabin In The Woods and why he knows nothing about characters off the page". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2012.
“I've made a few hits where I'll look up at the screen and be like, 'Oh my God.' Like it wasn't even me, like I just watched another guy kill this guy, and I don't even think that was me that made that hit.”
“Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.”

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