Dar Williams Quotes
The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'
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I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?
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I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.
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On foreign policy, Obama has talked softly and carried a big stick.
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Away back in that time-in 1492 - there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . . What did he find when he first arrived here? Did he find a white man standing on the continent then? . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
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No one likes the house next door to look worse or a lot better than his own.
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The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.
