Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes
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Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
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We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.
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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
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I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.
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Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.
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I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.
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I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
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I bake a chocolate cake from scratch every week.
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There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.
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I'm like, 'Why aren't artists owning their masters? Why are labels robbing artists dry, and they have to spend all this time on tour to even break even?' Like, what happened? Why are they promoting things that aren't either socially conscious or elevating the human consciousness?
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.
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The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.
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You can’t change what you don’t understand.
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This death’s livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.
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'Cause sometimes you feel tired, feel weak, and when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you, you gotta find that inner strength and just pull that shit out of you and get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Now that the 90's are over and more time has gone by, the 80's sound fresh again.
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Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
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I'm a drummer. I can count to four and repeat.
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I love Paul Rudd.
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Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.
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I've always toured solo acoustic.
