Alice Ripley Quotes
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
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As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I don't think about records.
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This must be such a relief for the TV executives managing a business in decline, suffering from a thousand cuts from social media and other new platforms. Trump arrived on the scene as a kind of manna from hell.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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I think, for any actor, dealing with the paranormal is intriguing.
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I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
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I gave a Christmas party last year - well, two Christmases ago - where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn't perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana.
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After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages.
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I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.
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The 'Lost' pilot was wide enough and included enough things so that when Season Five came, and we spent half of the year in 1973, nobody cried foul. It felt like it was already a part of the DNA.
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Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh.
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I grew up in Ohio. I was born in a suburb of Oakland, but I grew up in Ohio.
