Alice Ripley Quotes
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
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The trick is to be Zen about it. Winning is sometimes not the prize
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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As long as a tune has the power to move me, I'm a lifelong fan.
