Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
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I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.
Imelda May -
In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
Rachel Dratch -
They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
Parker Posey -
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
S. E. Hinton -
I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
M. Night Shyamalan -
I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
Walton Goggins
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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.
J. B. Smoove -
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Oliver Herford -
The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
Karan Mahajan -
I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
Sally Field -
What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
Oprah Winfrey -
Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
Cameron Dallas
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
C. L. R. James -
It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
T.I. -
Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
Yami Gautam -
Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
Vidya Balan -
I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
Fedor Emelianenko -
I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
Hannibal Buress
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Anybody who knows me knows that I'm just here to put a smile on people's faces.
Jason Mitchell -
Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
John Churton Collins -
I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
Karen Thompson Walker -
If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.
Matthew Desmond -
Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.
Alicia Keys