Alice Ripley Quotes
I was in the original cast of 'Sunset Boulevard.' I played Betty. But I wasn't on the cast album.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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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.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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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.
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I think at first I didn't tell anyone I was writing something because I found so tedious the people who did.
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I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.
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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?
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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'.
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It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.
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The pressure is on the big teams.
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The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.
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The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.
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In the epic war over Silicon Valley's intellectual property, Bill Gates was on the side of licensing copyright and robust protections for intellectual property. He wasn't on the side of the hackers, and he didn't want information to be free.
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'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.
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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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I was in the original cast of 'Sunset Boulevard.' I played Betty. But I wasn't on the cast album.
