Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes
I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.
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I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
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People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.
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The RSC changed my career, and 'Coronation Street' changed my life.
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'Nova' was one of the tracks that inspired me to create 'Fade,' which later became 'Faded'. It has a beautiful melody, and the way it progresses throughout the whole track is just amazing!
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When I was younger, I'd buy a vinyl album, take it home and live with it, and I think that attachment's largely gone for the file-sharing generation.
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I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne Morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life. She wrote, 'My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.' That's good counsel for us all, not as an excuse to forgo duty, but as a sage point about pace and the need for quality in relationships.
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I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.
