Alice Ripley Quotes
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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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The audience fills me back up, definitely.
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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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Oh my God, I love Max von Essen.
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Sometimes you're the only one who thinks you have a good idea.
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When 'Next to Normal' won the Pulitzer, that was the moment I felt the show was being defined. There's a certain confidence that comes with being selected.
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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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Any kind of grieving that is not allowed causes a break. In our culture, grieving in public is not encouraged, but in other cultures, it is done publicly. Some cultures have walls where people can cry. We don't have that. We have theatre where there's always the chance for you to face things within yourself.
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George Benson's 'This Masquerade' is my favorite version of Leon Russell's blue gem.
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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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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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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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I play the guitar every day.
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I love having a basement.
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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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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 think I enjoy Sondheim so much because of the lyrics. The lyrics, the cornucopia of options.
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Leisure time is when I'm not at the Booth Theater.
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I take a lot of naps.
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I was in the original cast of 'Sunset Boulevard.' I played Betty. But I wasn't on the cast album.
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I'm a strong follower of hydrotherapy.
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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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'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.