Dar Williams Quotes
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.
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I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.
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I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'
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Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.
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It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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I think it's absolutely about time that we have as many female leads as male. It's a very exciting time to be an actress.
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An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.
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You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.
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There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when I'm eating that I'm not hurting the planet, I'm not hurting other people on this planet, I'm not hurting animals... and I'm not hurting nature.
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I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.
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When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
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As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
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John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.
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I came home from Portugal convinced that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God asked in those apparitions of 1917 . . . The future of our civilization, our liberties, our very existence may depend upon the acceptance of her commands.
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I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write.
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Our mom was a super strident, capable, and strong individual. I think because she was a military wife in the Marine Corps, she had to push back the things that she believed, and she had to really scrape and fight to have her space.
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Arguably, if you view a real barn in bright sunlight and close by, while fully alert and otherwise in good shape, then you do know whether or not you see a barn. You have "animal" knowledge, says my virtue theory, through the first-order aptness of your judgment.
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But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.
