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.
Quotes to Explore
-
You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
-
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.
-
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.
-
France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
-
I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
-
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.
-
If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
-
LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
-
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
-
Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
-
There are many people who live in what I call 'No-man's Land,' a place where you're not really happy, but you're not unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place. It's a place where people numb themselves to their dreams. It's where they dismiss hope and accept what's in front of them instead of driving toward what they really want in life.
-
I'm always about trying to fill a need with what I do in my artistry. There is definitely a need in the performing arts world for a movement to come along that seriously connects with a next generation audience while still maintaining the timeless artistic objectives present throughout the history of the American music tradition.
-
In life and in politics, it's helpful to try to perceive the other person through the most generous lens.
-
It's important to let children fly on their own. I understood that they needed to create their own life and not be my shadow. Let them make their own decisions, and support them along the way.
-
It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.
-
I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.
