Alice Ripley Quotes
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
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I was not the popular kid in school.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
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I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
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I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.
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There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.
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I was a gym rat and I always thought that was a part of my success.
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The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government.
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There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.
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I love D.C. I love working there.
