Alice Ripley Quotes
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.
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So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle.
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If we are not free, no one will respect us.
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Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.
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To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.
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I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.
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I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.
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I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.
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I've been having meetings with people, just everywhere in the world, and it's like, 'Hey, really love you to work with me, send me some ideas.' That's the crazy part.
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I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was glad of course but I thought it was lucky accident.
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In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.
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Feminists who say that I switched sides because I am an opportunist should know that exactly the opposite is true. It's cost me a lot of money. I've gone from being well-to-do to being $70,000 in debt. I have done something self-destructive financially. I could only do it because I don't have to support a wife and child.
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Even if you're not being chased by paparazzi, there will be someone doing selfies, so everybody has to be camera-ready all the time. Whoever you are, everybody has to be ready now!
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Republicans can go fuck themselves!
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Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.
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The ball of snow when, as it rolls, it descends from the snowy mountains, increases in size as it falls.
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(The Community Charge is) the flagship of the Thatcher fleet.
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At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
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I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.
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Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
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I cried for madder music and for stronger wine.
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I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.
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Nothing is hanging on my walls.
