Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
I wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad!
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I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.
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If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.
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I try to take roles that don't fall within the parameters of any Asian stereotype.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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I knew that Trump was ghastly. I knew I'd vote for Hillary if I had a vote.
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Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a game, I often find myself scolding reality stars that can't hear me through the television set.
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I wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad!
