Alice Ripley Quotes

I was 14. I went to see a production of 'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,' and when they got to that final song, 'If We Only Have Love,' it was like the top of my head had blown off.

Alice Ripley

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• Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

  

  T. E. Hulme
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• My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

  

  Maggie Q
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• Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

  

  Jackson Browne
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• I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

  

  L'Wren Scott
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• Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.

  

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  • Together
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• Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.

  

  Sam Graves
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• I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • School
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• I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Actor
  • Scripts
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• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
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• I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • People
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• Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Heart
  • Perspective
  • Losing

• If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

  

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  • Good
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• I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Want
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• For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Fear
  • Gay

• To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Pretty
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• I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.

  

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  • Good
  • Children
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• It's hard to fight in high heels or even jeans that are too tight. You can't kick in skinny, skinny jeans.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • High

• Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

  

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  • Art
  • Literature
  • Bones

• If I don't go to mass, necessarily, every day, but I definitely go to the church every day. That's how I start my day. I like to get in there for about 15 to 20 minutes and say my prayers.

  

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  • Church

• It's a weird combination that makes a great picture. It's a complete mystery to me.

  

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  • Picture
  • Mystery
  • Combination

• Actually, it was in Paris in 1914 that I did my first collages, for an occultist friend. They were mysterious portico's which were supposed to replace mural paintings and which evoked the structure of palm branches or fish-bones. remark on the first collages Arp made, in different materials

  

  Jean Arp
  • Different
  • Friend
  • Paris

• I was 14. I went to see a production of 'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,' and when they got to that final song, 'If We Only Have Love,' it was like the top of my head had blown off.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Song
  • Paris