Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes
I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.
Quotes to Explore
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.
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To design a home is to design happiness, to create for ourselves a little piece of joy.
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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
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If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we keep worsening a severe recession.
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The life of a congressional spouse is harder than the life of the member. They do all the work and get none of the recognition.
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I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.
