Alice Ripley Quotes
The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Imagine Him smiling down on you right now. Embrace His love. Remember, you are His most prized possession, the apple of His eye!
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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You can ride your bike to anywhere in Portland if you want to. I think there was a charming underdog mentality when I first moved here in the late '80s that is definitely gone. People acted more like underdogs, dressed more like underdogs.
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For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.
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Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.
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I didn't know I was a good director, and I mean that sincerely. I had done a film a long time ago called 'Cold Around the Heart.' Nobody saw it, and it didn't turn out the way I wanted to.
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You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
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The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.
