Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.
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Making a success in show business is like getting a big promotion on a job. You get more prestige, more authority, more money - and you also get longer hours, more work, and more responsibility. It evens out.
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The script is always the main preparation for me. Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it, but if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
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I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.
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For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.
