Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
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No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.
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I'm very humble.
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If you constantly pound your muscles, they'll never have time to repair.
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By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.
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I've got a certain derring-do about me. I'm an explorer for the truth in a jungle of political overgrowth.
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I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.
