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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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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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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The marathon can humble you.
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Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.
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That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.
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All my kids play guitar, sing, and dabble with writing.
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Years ago, during a John Grisham phase, I tried to pinpoint exactly why I found Grisham's often predictable legal thrillers quite so comforting. The best answer I could come up with was the frequency with which Grisham tells us that his lead characters are sipping coffee. When it comes to food and drink, predictability can console.
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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
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As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.
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Sometimes, you find the play; sometimes, the play finds you.
