Amanda Ripley Quotes
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.
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It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.
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I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.
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There are no good and bad peoples; there are only leaderships that behave responsibly or insanely.
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When I read the 'Ugly Betty' pilot, I thought, 'Oh, this part's funny.' I said to my husband, 'I'm going to get it!' But based on what? All my exquisite comedic work in a Nike commercial?
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Weeds and nettles, briars and thorns, have thriven under your shadow, dissettlement and division, discontentment and dissatisfaction, together with real dangers to the whole.
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My girl has gone, and said goodbye.Don't you cry, hold your head up high.Don't give up, give love one more try,'Cause there's a right girl for every guy.
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The motto of the Netherlands is translated into English as 'I will uphold.' But I want you to know that, as we go forward, our message together is not just 'I will uphold,' but 'we will uphold.'
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I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.
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Basketball was always my game.
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Television is like a library. There are a lot of library books in it, and you have to pick and choose what you take out of it.
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Glass really rewards risk. A lot of times with glass, you're just waiting for the piece to cool down or for some temperature to adjust, and there's split seconds where you've got a fraction of a second where you get to make a move a particular way, and you don't get to repeat it if you do it wrong.
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Duane Allman might be my favorite guitar player ever. I'd say I'm influenced by the Allman Brothers more than any other band. When I taught guitar lessons for a living, the students that were interested in soloing had to learn the intro to 'It's Not My Cross to Bear' first thing.
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In high school, I worked at The Video Room in Oakland, California. It had the largest selection of laser discs in the Bay Area. One guy owned all of them.
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My kids and I live like three fun-loving hermits. We're quite bohemian.
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I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.
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The Bolshoi style is bigger and more emotional, in a way that I love. It has the freshness and intensity that is like what I've tried to achieve in my dance-acting roles.
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I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.
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How can a guy talk about $20 or $30 million if he's never even made $8 or $9 million?
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I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way - I just feel good in my skin.
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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The raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth and death, joy and sorrow, loss and recovery.
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Narrative is the beginning of recovery.