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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Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.
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I was extremely aggressive from the start.
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People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.
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Believe that none of the effort you put into coming closer to God is ever wasted - even if in the end you don't achieve what you are striving for.
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Issues become much more real to me when I have stories back home.
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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.
