Alice Ripley Quotes

I cry at Kodak commercials.

Alice Ripley

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• One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Want
  • You
  • Successful

• The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Different
  • First
  • Elected

• In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Job
  • America

• I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon' world, but that's kind of where I want it to stay.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • World
  • Guy
  • Want

• I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Military
  • Find
  • Falling

• I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Want
  • Lose
  • Permanent

• Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Important
  • True
  • Self

• I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Myself
  • Grow
  • Plants

• Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Yourself

• In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Kindness

• The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Devil
  • Adversity

• Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Quality
  • Things
  • Volatility

• There have been some hard times, people around me supported me.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • People
  • Me
  • Supported

• She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • She
  • Feel
  • Color

• I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Listen
  • Him
  • Rush

• There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• By night an atheist half believes a God.

  

  Edward Young
  • God
  • Night
  • Atheist

• During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Moon

• 'Kung Fu' was never cancelled; I just left. I decided I had enough of it, and I thought I should do a movie right away, because I think when you leave a television series, it's important that you establish the fact that you're a movie actor really quickly, or you might never get that chance.

  

  David Carradine
  • Important
  • Movie

• For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who - one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Love
  • Humanity
  • Struggle

• The characters of man's heart, blotted and confounded as they are with dissembling, lying, counterfeiting, and erroneous doctrines, are legible only to him that searcheth hearts.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Characters
  • Hearts
  • Doctrines

• The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a good novel.

  

  Kathleen Rooney
  • Good
  • Novel
  • Poem

• I cry at Kodak commercials.

  

  Alice Ripley