Alice Ripley Quotes
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
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You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.
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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
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I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.
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All this wealth excludes but one evil,-poverty.
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Whether you think we belong in Iraq or not, we can't tune it out; we have to remain mindful of the terrible losses that individual soldiers are suffering in our name.
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You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
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When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?
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In the whole negative part, we are alike. We and the Russians are against liberals, against democrats, against parliament.
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Eviction comes with a record. Just like a criminal record can hurt you in the jobs market, eviction can hurt you in the housing market. A lot of landlords turn folks away who have an eviction, and a lot of public housing authorities do the same.
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I've just always loved really good projects. The things that draw me into a new project have very little to do with genre and have more to do with the characters I'll be playing, the people I'll get to work with and things like that.
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L.A. is fun, but it feels like one of those towns in the north of Scotland where there's an oil rig just off the coast and whether or not you work for the oil rig, everyone is connected to it.
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I'm huge fan of 'Timeflies.'
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Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from scene to scene than as a whole, the intelligence shines in its understanding of contradictions, keeping a comic distance from the emotional investment of teenagers that defined 'Ridgemont High' and later the adolescent angst movies of John Hughes.
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Every woman knows the art of saying no with the lips and yes with the rest.
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I'm just looking for projects I enjoy.
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I'm starting on Cirque du Soleil Michael Jackson show. So it's the equivalent of the Beatles' Love show they have, or the Elvis show. Which is exciting and terrifying all at the same time because it's such a huge responsibility. But that's why I took it on, because Mike was such a huge part of my career and life. we were friends for 20 years before he passed, since I was seven. So it's an opportunity for me to give back a little bit to his legacy.
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God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
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Sometimes, you find the play; sometimes, the play finds you.
