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Alice Ripley Quotes

When you're an actor, you do get involved with your characters - your emotional life is tied up with theirs, and so is your physical life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life You Actor Emotional Up Get

My experiences building Palantir and running Addepar made me aware of serious problems with government and inspired me to build a non-profit to look into state spending.

Government Me Building Problems Look

I grew up Presbyterian, just a basic Protestant upbringing. There were years in my life when I would go to church every Sunday and to Sunday school. Then I just phased out of it.

Life School Church My Life Sunday

I've been on the tour for many, many years. It's time for me to go now, before it's too late.

Time Me Late Go Now Too Late

For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well documented and partly because, until recently, people didn't care. We used euphemisms like 'sackings' and 'sieges' instead of calling them 'genocides.'

People Care Forget Used Well Like

When I first read 'On the Road,' it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how to be subversive when the subversive has become mainstream.

Live Me Road Wonder Now Become

My advice is for veterans to seek out mentors, people who are doing what you want to do. You have to decide what you want and have a goal. Don't worry about how you're going to do it. Just trust that you'll get there.

Trust People Advice Worry Doing You

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

Beauty God Heart Beautiful Rose He

I don't think 'Freak Dance' is a parody; it's more reference than anything. People don't think of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' as a 'Frankenstein' parody. It's kind of like that.

Dance People Think Picture Kind

When you write a song, you don't ask if it's good or not, or if it's gonna sell. When you write a song, you ask whether you've reached deep inside your heart and whether it's honest.

Good Heart Song Deep You Write

I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.

Forward You Everything Move Cannot

I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 years old.

Cats Old Years I Was Raised Buddy

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

Books Like Most Anybody Afford Them

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