#fe

I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced. ↗

— Jewel

#attention #balanced #entire #entire life #great

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

#coming #diego #hear #homeless #i

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours. ↗

— Jewel

#door #focused #hours #i #left

I'm trying to be in the moment and really enjoy my pregnancy. I feel really lucky. ↗

— Jewel

#feel #i #i feel #lucky #moment

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come. ↗

— John Jewel

#correction #counsel #end #examples #full

And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#because #best #best picture #comedies #even

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#best picture #comedies #few #moonstruck #nominated

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them. ↗

— Ma Jian

#being #believe #chinese #chinese people #controlled

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear. ↗

— Ma Jian

#chinese #chinese people #could #crushed #fear

In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return. ↗

— Ma Jian

#allowed #authorities #been #beijing #book