Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes
I sort of came out at the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s and I think it helped break my career. I think I was one of the first artists to really benefit from the grassroots swell that can happen online. I don't know if I would have broken out without it.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.
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If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.
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My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
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One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.
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I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.
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In a city, there's more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a little bit. And it's exciting for me to be pursuing a career where I don't have to be small.
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I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York.
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I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.
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My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.
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Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.
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I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
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At the end of the day, TV is my first love. I started off my career from the small screen.
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My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
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Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
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Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
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Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.
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Growing up as Chinese-American, as someone who experienced racism, questions of 'otherness' are always at the forefront of my mind.
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Tell me how it is that in this room there are three candles and but one light, and I will explain to you the mode of the Divine existence.
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Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.
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I think we're always going to be based in New York. So I would say 50 percent New York and the other 50 percent around the world.
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I sort of came out at the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s and I think it helped break my career. I think I was one of the first artists to really benefit from the grassroots swell that can happen online. I don't know if I would have broken out without it.
