Alice Ripley Quotes
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
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I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that.
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One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to without feeling guilty.
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There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.
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That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
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I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.
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I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.
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The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.
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What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
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I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.
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A friend is someone who supports you. And these people are buying tickets at outrageous ticket prices. If that ain't support, I don't know what is.
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There is no end to the deceits of the past.
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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
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His name, Buzz, fits. He can buzz along at 40 miles an hour when his genetic memory moves him.
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If a public figure tells a whopping lie once in his life, it'll haunt him into his grave. If he lies morning, noon and night, it will become almost impossible to remember any one particular lie.
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I'm kind of a double middle child.
