Alice Ripley Quotes
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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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Sometimes you're the only one who thinks you have a good idea.
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The audience fills me back up, definitely.
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I play the guitar every day.
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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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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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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 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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I'm kind of a dork at being able to dress myself.
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I take a lot of naps.
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Oh my God, I love Max von Essen.
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Chrissie Hynde's from Ohio, and so am I. If there's a Cleveland sound, that's what it is.
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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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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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Leisure time is when I'm not at the Booth Theater.
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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'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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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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'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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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'm a strong follower of hydrotherapy.