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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 love vulnerability. It's what keeps me soft and from becoming emotionally calcified.
Jewel
So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.
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I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it.
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I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry.'
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I say to myself, sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again.
Jewel
I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.
Jewel
Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.
Jewel
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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Love is a flame neither timid nor tame.
Jewel
Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon.
Jewel
But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty Someday we will become what we see
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Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.
Jewel
Life in a shelter or on the streets puts homeless kids and youth at a higher risk for physical and sexual assault and abuse, physical illness, including HIV/AIDS
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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.
Jewel
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.
Jewel
Your life becomes what you believe.
Jewel
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.
Jewel
No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from.
Jewel
Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.
Jewel
I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.
Jewel
