Dar Williams Quotes
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.
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To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
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I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.
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I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I went to a school for the gifted in Florida, and it was full of kids who - we were all strange together. And that was a real blessing.
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This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister channel. How many spectacles I've missed: the curtain rising without me, and falling too. How many friends I never had the chance to meet.
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I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.
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Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.
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Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
