Alice Ripley Quotes
When 'Next to Normal' won the Pulitzer, that was the moment I felt the show was being defined. There's a certain confidence that comes with being selected.
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
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Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.
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There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.
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Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.
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I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.
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A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
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I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn't seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history.
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When 'Next to Normal' won the Pulitzer, that was the moment I felt the show was being defined. There's a certain confidence that comes with being selected.
