Alice Ripley Quotes
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One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
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Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.
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There have been some hard times, people around me supported me.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.
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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.
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By night an atheist half believes a God.
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During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
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I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks.
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He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.
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I make sure to write every day, even if it's a little bit.
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I cry at Kodak commercials.
