Alexandra Ripley Quotes
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
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It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
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Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
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A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.
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As for 'taste' as a criterion of painting I find that it is most frequently applied to work that is essentially insensitive, brutal or vulgar beyond question. Could it now be a term with political undertones to seduce, or cover profounder motives of exploitation? I propose it be kept to the wine cellar. There it deceives no one but him who over-indulges.
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Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult question to answer, especially at a company with a portfolio approach: If you could only do one thing, what would it be? And you can't rationalize the answer, and you can't attach the one thing to some other things. It's just the one thing.
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I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me.
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Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek.
