Alice Ripley Quotes
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All day I wait for my job, which I do at night, and once I get there, I walk a tightrope, jump through hoops, and take breathtaking dives.
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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.
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I have a soft spot for vintage movie houses covered in goo; what can I say?
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I grew up in Ohio. I was born in a suburb of Oakland, but I grew up in Ohio.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen.
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I cry at Kodak commercials.
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My favourite roller coaster is the Millennium Force at Cedar Point in Ohio.
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I had to go off by myself to try and discover what my talent really was.
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The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.
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My mother is always the most vulnerable person in any room, and so I definitely have that part of her inside me.
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Part of the frustration of being bipolar is people don't understand what it feels like.
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For me, in the audition, the song that you choose should make you cry. It doesn't matter why: it could be because you're happy, but it gives you that feeling that you're overflowing.
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At the end of 'Next to Normal,' you can see the light. 'There will be light.' That's the reason the show exists. Those are the last four words.
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I'm kind of a double middle child.
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As a teen, 'Thunder Road' was always in my head.
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I would love to play Mary in 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' or 'Virginia Woolf' or a comedy - just, like, a slapstick comedy.
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Nothing is hanging on my walls.
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My favorite thing as a performing artist is to get a pile of raw material from a writer who says, 'Will you help me make this real?' There's nothing like starting from scratch.
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I have fallen deeply in love with songs - musical theatre songs included - over the years, and this experience has taught me to hear and honor the writer's voice in my soul.
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I'm kind of a dork at being able to dress myself.
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I take musical theater seriously.
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Sometimes you're the only one who thinks you have a good idea.
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There is genuine healing in a beautifully crafted musical theatre song, like Stephen Sondheim's 'Losing My Mind,' or a pop music gem like Joni Mitchell's 'Help Me.'
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Chrissie Hynde's from Ohio, and so am I. If there's a Cleveland sound, that's what it is.