Alice Ripley Quotes
Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can't do that in the theatre.
Quotes to Explore
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.
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I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it's all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things.
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People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot tub. Everybody puts on a bathing suit and we splash around.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed. But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing which shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
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Writing is a lonely profession.
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Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can't do that in the theatre.
