Alice Ripley Quotes
Knowing there is a capable back-up willing to give it a try always makes you feel better.
Quotes to Explore
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
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They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don't even like.
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I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I'm not an expert by any means, but it's so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.
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So now I'm praying for the end of timeTo hurry up and arriveCause if I gotta spend another minute with youI don't think that I can really survive.I'll never break my promise or forget my vowBut God only knows what I can do right now.I'm praying for the end of timeIt's all that I can doPraying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you!
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Knowing there is a capable back-up willing to give it a try always makes you feel better.
