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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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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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Working out anchors my day.
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For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast.
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You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?
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Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek.
