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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
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Mount Kisco
New York
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It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.
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For my 50th birthday I just want to make it all make sense [being exactly half introvert], and then a couple of weeks later do the blow-out with all my friends.
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The rest of the songs on the album [Mortal City ] have spare arrangements on them. Steve [Miller], really loved that. He'd just come off of a project with someone who basically had to mask the fact that there were no songs there with production. He said, Oh, my God, you have real songs here!
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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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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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The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.
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I would encourage people to bridge broadly and creatively in their communities, not just because that creates the most fun and resiliency, but also because it creates the most points of access for people to be part of the community, which is what democracy is at its best.
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At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.
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Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
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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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