Dar Williams Quotes
How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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Imagine the power of surfacing what's happening in the world through images, and potentially other types of media in the future, to each and every person who holds a mobile phone.
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I get very spiky if people treat me like an old lady.
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You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.
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I never really thought it would be possible to keep making films. I thought I'd get to a point where it would just stop happening, and I still sort of feel that way. I don't know if any actor feels like they are going to have a career forever, unless they're a movie star.
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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
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How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.
