Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

Jewel Kilcher

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• I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Walk
  • I Can
  • Street

• At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • College
  • Language
  • Poet

• I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nature
  • Future
  • Fate

• I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie

• Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Words
  • Way
  • Humor

• That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • World
  • Success
  • Day

• If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • War
  • Go
  • Chihuahua

• You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Feel

• We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Long
  • Control
  • Destiny

• Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Real
  • True
  • Action

• After doing comedy for a while and knowing how hard it is to do physical comedy right, I learned how incredibly talented the Three Stooges really were after re-watching old episodes. They still stand up!

  

  Carly Craig
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Trying
  • Know
  • Impact

• I was really fat in school.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • School
  • Really
  • Fat

• When girls feel bad about their looks, 60 percent avoid normal daily activities like raising their hand in class or even going to the doctor. That means that girls do not show up for life when they don't feel good enough or pretty enough. A role model can help girls see beauty as a source of confidence, not anxiety.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Feet

• Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • World
  • Men
  • Best

• I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Quality
  • Voice

• So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People

• I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

  

  John Paul DeJoria
  • Work
  • School
  • Home

• But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making warmth shiver in ague fits. I think Shakespeare never errs in his logical sequence in character. He surprises us, seems unnatural to us, but because we have been superficial observers; while genius will disclose those truths to which we are blind.

  

  William Alfred Quayle
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Logical

• I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life's regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union.

  

  Amity Gaige
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Prayer
  • Spirit
  • Run

• I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

  

  Jewel Kilcher