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Alice Ripley Quotes

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.

Alice Ripley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: December 14, 1963

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Me Song Someone Play Sometimes Hire

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

Jerry Seinfeld

Car Thought Write First Real Always

I was already in my early twenties, but I looked much younger because I was fresh-faced and, well, short. So I did songs such as 'Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah' and jokes such as describing current events as 'ancient history.' Boy, did the audience roar at that one.

Joel Grey

History Short Early Boy Events Well

I tell my agent that I want to read everything.

Jena Malone

Want Everything Tell Read Agent

I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.

Andrae Crouch

Walk Day Writing House Intention Go

I chose to document the lives of people living in a remote village in Alaska called Shishmaref because there we can literally see how climate change is affecting their homes, livelihoods and ultimately their lives.

Amy J. Berg

Change People Village Living See

I strongly believe we must move forward with these much-needed reforms to the Ex-Im Bank by acting on a five-year reauthorization bill.

Stephen Fincher

Believe Forward Acting Bank Move

The London Library in Piccadilly is the best place for a sleep.

Sophie Winkleman

Best Sleep Library Place London

We feel free... Now we are really self-reliant. This is the great advantage of teaching ourselves to become a free people, no longer one that always asks, 'Aid, aid, please.'

Sukarno

Great People Free Feel Now Become

I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

Tom Rachman

Family Been Everybody Everybody Else

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

Mira Sorvino

Friend Mother Party Play Doll Dutch

Some Marine units actually use 'An Officer and a Gentleman' in their training programs.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

Training Gentleman Some Use Actually

I hate it when I get grumpy. But I can only be high-energy for so long.

Chloe Kim

Hate Long I Can Grumpy Get Only