Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes
My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Lying is our stock-in-trade as social creatures.
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My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.
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My entire life changed when I became a mother - my priorities, my understanding, appreciation of life, and my relationship with God.
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Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
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My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.
