Alice Ripley Quotes

I was in the original cast of 'Sunset Boulevard.' I played Betty. But I wasn't on the cast album.

Alice Ripley

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• The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Wise
  • Contradict

• It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Popular

• I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Myself

• Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • People
  • Trying
  • City

• I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Different
  • Power
  • Always

• I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • People
  • Book
  • Reading

• I think at first I didn't tell anyone I was writing something because I found so tedious the people who did.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Writing
  • Think

• I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Live

• We've all heard it: vegans are cool and plant-based dining is hot. What other diet can promise to keep you trim without working at it, clear clogged arteries, save the lives of animals, and do more to stem climate change than driving a Prius-or not driving at all?

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Cool
  • Promise
  • Driving

• Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'.

  

  Peter Berg

• It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.

  

  Joe Paterno
  • People
  • Life

• The pressure is on the big teams.

  

  Claudio Ranieri

• The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.

  

  Cheyenne Jackson
  • Real
  • Today
  • Hate

• When herding behaviour among investors ramps up, a stock's or index's growth rate can increase faster than exponentially, leading to more herding. This positive feedback brings the system to a tipping point. About two-thirds of the time, a crash results.

  

  Didier Sornette
  • Up
  • Time
  • Positive

• The cast of 'The Big C' is such an amazing group of people. They're so joyful and just open their arms to you as an actor.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • People
  • Amazing

• As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with a touchdown pass. The chances of that happening, by the looks of most of the Super Bowls, is a very rare chance. Fortunately for me, I had an opportunity.

  

  Joe Montana
  • Opportunity
  • Winning

• On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.

  

  Jim Gerlach
  • Country
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I hate women who say they can eat whatever they want, because I don't relate to that at all. It isn't fair! I absolutely live for food.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Women
  • Live
  • Hate

• Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Future
  • Beautiful

• Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Color
  • inspirational

• Your righteous eyes, your laconic trigger-fingers people the streets with villains: as you move, the air in front of you blossoms with targets and you leave behind you a heroic trail of desolation: beer bottles slaughtered by the side of the road, bird- skulls bleaching in the sunset.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Air

• 'Sunrise Sunset' is a letter I wrote to a girl I was once with who I really thought I was going to fall in love with. We tried to make it work but always had trouble maintaining a real relationship because we were both so caught up with work, life, and everything else that at the time seemed like it was the priority.

  

  Benny Cassette
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

  

  John McCrae
  • Lying
  • Sunset
  • Fields

• I was in the original cast of 'Sunset Boulevard.' I played Betty. But I wasn't on the cast album.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Sunset