Amanda Ripley Quotes

Narrative is the beginning of recovery.

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• I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Stories
  • Nothing
  • Selection

• 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.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Change
  • Be Yourself

• It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Money
  • You
  • Player

• 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.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Good
  • Men
  • Spiritual

• There are no good and bad peoples; there are only leaderships that behave responsibly or insanely.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Good And Bad

• 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?

  

  Becki Newton
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Husband

• Weeds and nettles, briars and thorns, have thriven under your shadow, dissettlement and division, discontentment and dissatisfaction, together with real dangers to the whole.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Real
  • Together
  • Shadow

• 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.

  

  Smokey Robinson
  • Up
  • High
  • Guy

• 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.'

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Together
  • English

• I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • God
  • Amazing
  • Jesus

• Basketball was always my game.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • Game
  • Basketball

• 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.

  

  Jim McKelvey
  • Cool
  • Risk
  • Waiting

• 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.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Band
  • Player

• 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.

  

  Colin Trevorrow
  • School
  • High
  • Guy

• My kids and I live like three fun-loving hermits. We're quite bohemian.

  

  Amrita Singh
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Fun

• I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

  

  Frank Black
  • Driving
  • Girlfriend

• 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.

  

  David Hallberg
  • Style
  • Dance
  • Emotional

• I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.

  

  Bon Scott

• The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.

  

  Ellen Tauscher
  • Business
  • Small

• When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.

  

  Louis C. K.
  • People
  • Kids
  • Smile

• The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with art. I am often, in my writing, great leaps ahead of where I am in my thinking, and my thinking has to work its way slowly up to what the 'superconscious' has already shown me in a story or poem.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• It's a great gig, really: getting on stage, playing the guitar, singing. For a living, it's super.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Great
  • Singing

• I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Me
  • Blood
  • Pressure

• Narrative is the beginning of recovery.

  

  Amanda Ripley
  • Recovery
  • Narrative