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'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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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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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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I'm a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I'm an old guy.
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I know why jobs go, and I know why they come.
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
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Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.
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In the U.S. when people like me started writing things about inequality, the economic journals had no classification for inequality. I couldn't find where to submit my inequality papers because there was no such topic. There was welfare, there was health issues, there was trade obviously. Finance had hundreds of sub groups.
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Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
