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Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

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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
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I can do what I want to do, lucky me. But when these people are coming at me and asking these things, they don't really care about me. And I have felt like there were all these people who just wanted to use me.
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When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside. It reminds me to live in the moment.
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I pray to give thanks and to recognize all the good things that are in my life even during times of great change, confusion, or frustration.
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My mom is definitely my rock.
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A lot of people, they've been saying to me, oh don't get married. It ruins everything. And I'm like, damn.
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Right now the way I define beauty is individuality and wisdom, which I think creates a certain inner confidence. And not confidence in a way that's only on the surface, but a deep-down knowing of yourself or settling into who you are.
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I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part of seeing that from really young has made me really steer very far away from it in all of its forms.
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And Im happy that Im not super skinny.
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I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.
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You can't really compare people. That's one of the biggest lessons I've learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.
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I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body.
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And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.
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I'm very happy with my body.
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We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.
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I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from.
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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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When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
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What acting does bring that music doesn't bring for me is the opportunity is the opportunity to be completely different in every way from whom you normally are, the person that you are when you wake up in the morning is who you are in your life. But to take that and have the opportunity to be the complete opposite of that, is the excitement of it.
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I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.
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Love is accepting people for who they are and what they are, regardless.
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