Alice Ripley Quotes
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
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Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.
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There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.
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It's maybe an unrecognized fact of academia that what you spend a lot of your time doing is convincing people of your vision and raising funds to support your research activity. So in that sense, transitioning to a startup wasn't that big of a transition.
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Todd Palin's frequent presence in the governor's office led some in Juneau to call him the 'Shadow Governor.' But it had never been clear, at least to the public, what roles he played.
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Leisure time is when I'm not at the Booth Theater.
