Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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I'm a normal guy. I'm not a chef.
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When you give, you receive.
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As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.
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Most of music videos were short films - they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments.
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That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.
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I think it's the ego in us that screws us up.
