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And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.

Dar Williams

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Dar Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 19
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Writer
Mount Kisco
New York
Dorothy Snowden Williams
Dorothy Snowden Dar Williams
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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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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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I have a sordid past.
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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 fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
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I would push for more production and Steve Miller would say, Why do you want to have more production when you have real songs? You don't want to cover up the song.
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