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You just can't take a day for granted. We had to work really hard for anything, and so that's been instilled in me. And I don't look at myself as better than anybody else, because in an instant everything can change.

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Alicia Keys
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 24
Actor
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Harlem
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Alicia J. Augello Cook
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