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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.

Dar Williams

I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
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Falling Gruesome Height Love
A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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Albums Play Song
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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Causes Knows Terrain
When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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Bout Evolve Ourselves
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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Artist Different Song
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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Choices Political Real
There’s tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that’s okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don’t know what to do with all those feelings.
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Bullshit Feelings Towns
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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Done Morning Up Wake
Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
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Citing Favorite Thinking
Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world
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Echo Kindness Time
There was one tour where I thought, “If I can’t get this feeling back of being excited to be on the stage, then I will quit.” Because I have friends who have dialed it in and I watch their concerts and shake my head. I’m sure the audience can tell, too.
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Dialed Feelings Quitting Watches
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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Cutting Family People Sensitive
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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Leader Parent Religious
The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common.
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Empires Foundation Looks
They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won’t do a better job of it.
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Jobs Praying World
I remember doing “As Cool As I Am” and Steve Miller, the producer, saying “I really hear a drum loop here. I want to play it for you.”
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Play Sound Thinking

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