Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
'I've never met him. It was mind-blowing. I couldn't quite believe it. He's a person that's seen so many things and been a part of music for so long. For him to give a shit about me is pretty exciting. I like it.'
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I never ever paid attention to any election.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
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It was sort of a solution to financial problems when I was a little kid. I just kept doing it because it's fun to be on movie sets.
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The practice of charity will bind us - will bind all men in one great brotherhood.
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I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.
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Swavey, it puts more than one genre of music together. That's the approach I have with all music I do.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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'I've never met him. It was mind-blowing. I couldn't quite believe it. He's a person that's seen so many things and been a part of music for so long. For him to give a shit about me is pretty exciting. I like it.'
