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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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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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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My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.
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I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.
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To me, the word 'hero' hasn't got positive or negative value - 'hero' is the person who leads you through the story.
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A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.
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Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.
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Success is not getting what you want, it's enjoying what you have.
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My go-to author for knowing it all is Evelyn Waugh. 'A Handful of Dust' is as perfect as a book can get.
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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.
