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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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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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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Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.
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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 spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.
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We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.
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You give Frost a message from me. You tell him it's open season on all suckheads.
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I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to require a critical intermediary - a "spokescritic." I want my poems to be independently meaningful moments of power for a good reader. And that's the expectation I initially bring to other poets' writing.
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I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.
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I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.
