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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.

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Alicia Keys
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 24
Actor
Art Collector
Composer
Musician
Pianist
Poet
Presenter
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Harlem
New York
Alicia J. Augello Cook
Shows
Live
Thrill
Excitement
Gonna
Singing
Possibility
Perfect
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If your family - just because they're blood doesn't mean that they necessarily give you the best advice.
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I'm so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that's the tricky part.
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I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show.
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If you treat me fairly, I'll give you all my goods.
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Risk the fall to know how it feels to fly.
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I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.
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I feel alive in quiet moments with my son, riding our bikes or watching him line his trains up in a particular order, witnessing how his mind works, hearing him learn a new word. I'm alive in these special moments because I never knew a love like this.
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I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.
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Why give up before we try?
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I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.
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It's karma, baby. And it goes around.
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Oh My God, the [hip-hop] videos! The imagery is so awful! I just can't get with it at all. The best thing I can say about it is that sometimes you have to see that kind of stuff so as to have a more balanced view about why it's so bad.
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Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it.
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