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
  • Live
  • Women
  • Hate

• I was influenced by many, many different people in my student years, and I was always, I guess, immersed in a Navy environment, and so, obviously, that had a big impact when I decided what I wanted to do was go and be a Navy pilot. I was very familiar with the Navy community and felt very comfortable with it.

  

  Alan G. Poindexter
  • People
  • Different
  • Community

• In my family I was never known as the fighter, like I became all of a sudden.

  

  Jane Byrne
  • Family

• America is a country ready to be taken-in fact, longing to be taken-by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

  

  Arianna Huffington
  • Country
  • America
  • Political

• When I got out of college in 1991, I had four jobs in four different parts of L.A. There was I Love Juicy, a smoothie bar in Venice, and the Videotheque on Sunset Boulevard, across from the old Tower Records. I was also an intern at the 'Los Angeles Reader' in the Miracle Mile and at 'High Performance' magazine downtown.

  

  Jenji Kohan
  • Different
  • High
  • College

• You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.

  

  Joey Bishop
  • She
  • Mother
  • Hollywood

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

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Sunset