Alice Ripley Quotes
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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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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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What made me so brave? Maybe it was being the middle kid of 11, and we all had to share one bathroom. New underwear? I never discovered that until I got into college.
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There were eleven kids, and we all shared a bathroom. It was enough to drive us all insane.
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It's nice to be in a smaller room. I like the big arenas as well, but at my core, I'm a live performer, so it's nice to be able to feel the warmth of everybody in the room.
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Oh my God, I love Max von Essen.
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Uzo Aduba over at 'Godspell' is doing an even more entertaining Donald Trump than Donald Trump's Donald Trump.
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It's hard being a Barbie doll all the time.
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'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.
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I just think Brian d'Arcy James is a dream come true. I've known of him ever since I saw him in 'Titanic,' and I fell crazy in love with him at that moment.
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I love having a basement.
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I think I enjoy Sondheim so much because of the lyrics. The lyrics, the cornucopia of options.
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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 take a lot of naps.
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I cry at Kodak commercials.
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'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody who is participating in that.
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When the decades pass and you're working in this business, the audiences get older with you. That's the nice part about it. They're so supportive and so loving.
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George Benson's 'This Masquerade' is my favorite version of Leon Russell's blue gem.
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I come from the Midwest, from the suburbs - growing up hanging out at the mall and looking at the corn fields across the street. I kind of was embarrassed by it for a long time. Then I decided, 'Hey, if everyone else can embrace their homeland and where they're from, I can do the same!'
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I've been committed to personal growth since I was a teenager, and I'm a believer in the idea that your thought is the only thing that matters.
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I've always been drawn to raw material.
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I'm a strong follower of hydrotherapy.
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I love every minute of my work.
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I sometimes write songs on the piano, even though I don't actually play the piano. I always hire someone to play for me whenever I decide to sing a song I have written on the piano. My song 'Rosa' is one.