Alice Ripley Quotes
'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.
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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first. I don't want to write anything that makes me cringe, first of all. I cringe a lot - mostly when I hear popular music.
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'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.
