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Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.
Jewel
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Jewel
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: May 23
Actor
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Jewel Kilcher
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I'm trying to be in the moment and really enjoy my pregnancy. I feel really lucky.
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I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.
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Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
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The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference.
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I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
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Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of songs waiting to get on albums, but I don't know about the three-month radio tours and if I'll be interested in that. I haven't figured it out, but I will definitely be doing music, whether it is independent or with a major record label.
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Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.
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I say to myself, sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again.
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I used to love reading when I was little, and then it became difficult and I didn't understand why. I thought, what a bummer, my passion all drained out of me. So when I found out I had dyslexia, it was like, oh, that's what it was.
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We've made houses for hatred. It's time we made a place where people's souls may be seen and made safe.
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Optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter - it's just safer.
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In the end only kindness matters.
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No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from.
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I didn't mean to be a songwriter I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.
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I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.
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I love vulnerability. It's what keeps me soft and from becoming emotionally calcified.
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We all will be Christed when we hear ourselves say: We are that to which we pray
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Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous there's really nothing to lose.
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