Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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I don't want to be embarrassed when I go to see something on the screen. I don't want to listen to foul language, watch a lot of violence or see something immoral. I prefer stories with sensitivity and family values; films that strive to lift you up to a higher place in life.
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That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.
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When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music.
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I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.
