Eric Ripert Quotes
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I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.
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On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.
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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.
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Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.
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The kids all literally think I'm Spider-Man, and they ask me how I shoot my webs. It's flattering and crazy, but it's Spider-Man they're in awe of, not Jake Epstein.
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Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.
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I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.
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Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts.
