Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
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The devil made me do it.
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Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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If a marker were to be erected today, it might read, in homage to his scientific courage: 'He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions.'
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When you’re not able to move around, do athletic movements for a while, the only thing you can do is just shoot spot-up jumpers. I guess that was the result of that.
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I think what I've learned to focus on is my music, and that's why I made my record independently.
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I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.
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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
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I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.
