Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.
-
I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.
-
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.
-
I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.
-
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.
-
I bake a chocolate cake from scratch every week.
-
Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
-
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.
-
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?
-
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
-
When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
-
Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.
-
The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
-
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.
-
Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
-
I'm very proud that a woman, has finally been chosen as a candidate for the president of the United States, because I always felt women should be treated like first-class citizens.
-
The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.
-
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
-
I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.
-
As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong.
-
I've always toured solo acoustic.
