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If you're lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.

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Dar Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 19
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Writer
Mount Kisco
New York
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I went to Canada and played in this tiny bar where the windows were steaming up and everybody was so animated and singing along right there at the foot of the stage, looking up, and I got my mojo back .
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I've watched towns and cities evolve and become very resilient, and fun, and unique, and prosperous on their own terms. And the secret is bridging. It's when the local church has a fun clothing swap fundraiser with a temple, and then the next year they bring in the mosque.
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You know how people say they're either like a cat or a dog? I feel like a cat. I just want to be alone. Isn't that weird? It's a lot to take in.
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I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.
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And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
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There was this moment in 2003 when I was asked to do a fundraiser for someone who was speaking out against the Iraq war when nobody was. I said, I will do a fundraiser for that guy. And then my friend John Hall, from the band Orleans...He ran for Congress in my district and won. I did a bunch of fundraisers for him.
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When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.
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They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.
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Slavery doesn't have any positives.
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Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.
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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
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I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time having some savings that my managers told me to spend. You fly all over the country opening for these other people. You pay a publicist to get some press while you're establishing yourself and you will be solvent in this career forevermore.
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I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.
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