Alexandra Ripley Quotes
One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.
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The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.
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I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.
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I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.
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It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable.
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One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.
