Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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I think I'm a soulful singer.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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I think the feeling was that 'Venture Brothers' really has something to sell in terms of a feature. 'Aqua Teen' is an element minute cartoon, and its very subversive and non sequitur and weird. We were writing the one show where we were constantly like, 'God, I wish we had another hour to tell this story.' It seemed like a natural fit.
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They're playin our song Gene!
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It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.
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I was kind of always the underdog.
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Hillary Clinton is the problem; she is not the solution to Donald Trump. We are the solution. We are the ones we've been waiting for. This is our moment. Together, we do have the power to create an America and a world that works for all of us.
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My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
