I am happy to do political fundraisers. I always hope that my friends will be, too. It’s part of who you are and you shouldn’t feel ashamed of what you believe in.
DAR WILLIAMSThere was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
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Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
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I’m just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can effect change.
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What happened on “As Cool As I Am” was, you know how in the ’90s, “the personal is political, the political is personal”? That was a really big thing.
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If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.
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[Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of my personality identifying with all of these different parts of the country.
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I am one of those sort of “lesser” types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn’t have made it on their own if other people hadn’t helped them.
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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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I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
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Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field
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We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.
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A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to “As Cool As I Am,” it’s not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music.
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And you bring your words, But you’re just like them, You’re unprepared ‘Cause you don’t know the terrain
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I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
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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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