Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part of seeing that from really young has made me really steer very far away from it in all of its forms.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
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My father has been by my side since I was little. He takes care of things, my finances and my family.
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I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.
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Defeat creates orphaned thoughts.
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I've taken up golf... or golf has taken me up.
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I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part of seeing that from really young has made me really steer very far away from it in all of its forms.
