Alice Ripley Quotes
George Hearn taught me that you learn that there are roles that are Tony roles and roles that are not.
Quotes to Explore
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
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'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.
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I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.
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I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.
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I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'
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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
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I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.
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There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
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I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.
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Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.
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My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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'Yes, Mr. Lee.' Superintendent Sugden did not wast time on explanations. 'What’s all this?'
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We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.
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Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.
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....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.
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I think 'Billy on the Street' is a big show, but why do a show if you won't make it original and unique and powerful?
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I pretty much know what I'm doing.
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Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.
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George Hearn taught me that you learn that there are roles that are Tony roles and roles that are not.
