Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes
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I write in a small office at home.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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I used to read a lot of fashion magazines: my favourite was 'Nylon.' I used to cut out all the pictures from magazines, and I had this book where I would keep all of the stuff that inspired me.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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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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It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.
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I'm very loyal to my south fans and the industry there. So, it's hard for me leave all the love, respect, and admiration and shift base here. I'm a Mumbai girl and have lived here for most of my life. At the same time, I've spent 10 years of my life in the South and feel like a south Indian at heart.
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I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.
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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
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After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
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I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.
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My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.
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I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.
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It's not a good idea to always look for new frontiers, especially when you have opportunities in your existing businesses, in your own backyard.
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I wanted to write songs about other people because I was sick of myself, basically. I didn't like myself very much. 'Ghostwriting' became an outlet for that. And then I could get back to get Jens Lekman again.
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I trained for four years in Toronto, and even before that, I was back and forth between Canada and the States during summer for training. And, since there isn't much difference between Canada and the States, I haven't felt much difference in the environment.
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I remember reading 'The Guest' and thinking, 'This is going to be something!'
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I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.
