Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
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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?
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If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?
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You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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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.
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I've always wanted to be a singer.
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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!
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On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.
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I was really fat in school.
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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.
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
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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.
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A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play.
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We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times.
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I'm an educator. You do what you have to do to get what you are saying across, and if that means being funny, that's what I do.
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Everyone in L.A. loves sushi, and I don't understand it at all.
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I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.
