Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes

At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn't even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.

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• Fitzgerald was a modernist.

  

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• I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

  

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• I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.

  

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• I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!

  

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• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

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• I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.

  

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• The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.

  

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• I really hate to write.

  

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• Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

  

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• As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

  

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• In our league, it comes right down to the end.

  

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• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

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• Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

  

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• Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.

  

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• In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

  

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• All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

  

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• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  

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• Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.

  

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• We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.

  

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• At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn't even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Value
  • Positive
  • Things