Alice Ripley Quotes
It's nice to be in a smaller room. I like the big arenas as well, but at my core, I'm a live performer, so it's nice to be able to feel the warmth of everybody in the room.
 
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	I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.   
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	I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.   
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	There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'   
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	In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.   
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	The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.   
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	When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.   
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	At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.   
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	Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.   
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	The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.   
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	As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.   
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	Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.   
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	Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.   
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	I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.   
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	I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.   
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	I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.   
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	I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.   
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	I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.   
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	I want to be free... free to develop my art.   
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	In French the truth of passion stood up coldly and cruelly to the scrutiny of human experience. In his own curious phrase he Pursewarden had always qualified it as 'an unsniggerable language'. (VIII)   
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	The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.   
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	Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.   
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	There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.   
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	When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.   
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	It's nice to be in a smaller room. I like the big arenas as well, but at my core, I'm a live performer, so it's nice to be able to feel the warmth of everybody in the room.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					