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.

Alicia Keys

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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.

Felix Dennis
- World
- True
- Celebrity
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.

Adam Green
- Life
- Working
- Director
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.

Tatiana Maslany
- Attention
- Like
- Camera
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.

Natalie Zea
- People
- Play
- Enjoy
I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.

Ferran Adria
- Work
- Believe
- I Believe
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Salvador Dali
- Man
- Woman
- Rose