Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I don't eat red meat.
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
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I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.
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Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.
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I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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Your basic physical makeup does influence the parts you're offered. If you're big, they cast you either dumb or tough, although there are exceptions. Clint Eastwood and James Arness carved out niches for themselves in Westerns. I just hope I won't be faced with doing 'Li'l Abner' in dinner theater for the rest of my career.
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Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.
