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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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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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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I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.
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I'm excited to join the Mountain Dew snowboarding team.
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We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
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What happens is people go, 'I want to play the guitar,' and the first thing they do is hit Google: 'How can I play this?' and the next thing you know, you've learned all these tricks, but you've never learned how to play rhythm guitar with a groove.
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Love is giving of yourself in a way that is free of fear.
