Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
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Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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Good material is good material.
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With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.
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Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.
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Lucy Kellaway's columns in the 'Financial Times' lend themselves to podcasts because they usually consist of her giving a brisk ticking off to some CEO or subversively wondering whether we're really as busy as we pretend we are.
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I don't have much estimation of my abilities as a director, but I found I loved class and loved process and loved practice. And so I've put together classes of actors - oh my God - since I was 21 years old, I think.
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My acting wasn't the best. But damn, my ass looked tight.
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Love is giving of yourself in a way that is free of fear.
