Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes

Wait, I'm deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.

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• As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.

  

  Taylor Handley
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Friendship

• Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Sleep

• If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Me
  • Best
  • Speak

• I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Lucky
  • Enormous
  • Metabolism

• We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

  

  Larry Page
  • Many
  • Rather
  • Few

• I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Done
  • Want
  • Star

• I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Say
  • Mystery
  • Short

• I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • School
  • High
  • Wish

• It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Good
  • Career
  • Funny

• I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Think
  • Player
  • Confidence

• I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • God
  • Man
  • Fall

• I came up with a story and I wrote it.

  

  E. L. James
  • Up
  • Story
  • Wrote

• While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Important
  • First
  • Gun

• I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Learning
  • Enjoy
  • Process

• I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Done
  • Model
  • Company

• Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Good
  • Cool
  • Story

• Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Evidence
  • Weakness

• Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Good
  • Country

• Now, this meeting would have taken place in mid-to-late 2004, over two years after we started recording, and a lot happened between that summit and the album coming out. One of them was that terrible tsunami in Indonesia on Boxing Day. Because of that, the record company got cold feet on Barney’s cover image, fearing a possible media backlash, and Alan Parkes from Warners had to go to Pete’s studio, pleading with him to do another sleeve. Pete was insistent. ‘No, I don’t want to do one. I don’t want to do it,’ but Alan was just as persistent, until at last Pete got fed up and wrote ‘NO’ on a piece of paper, gave it to Alan and said, ‘There’s my answer,’ and Alan went, ‘That’ll do,’ and took it. I like it. I think it’s one of his best sleeves.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Answer
  • Persistent
  • Sleeves

• When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Good
  • Father
  • Voice

• Wait, I'm deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Individual
  • Own
  • Wait