Alice Ripley Quotes
With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.
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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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I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
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The writer is all alone.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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I make a timeless music. I think I've made my mark as a lyricist and as an innovator and as a tastemaker.
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There are people who think that we should never reveal anything, never show puppeteers and all of that. It tends to be something that parents worry about more than kids, because kids work just at face value.
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I've been a vegetarian since I was about 12 years old. When I became a vegetarian, I got my mom and dad to become vegetarian, and my brother became a vegetarian.
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
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Back in 1993, I was studying in Delhi, and I had a girlfriend. I had never touched a girl before that in my entire life. One day, I decided to go out with her to a garden. We were sitting beside each other, and I just glanced around to see if anyone was looking at us, and I put my hand over hers. I thought love started in this way.
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With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.
