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Alice Ripley

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[Wikipedia] Alice Ripley is an American actress, singer, songwriter, and mixed media artist. She is best known for her work in Broadway musicals, including originating the role of Diana Goodman in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal, for which she won the 2009 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Oth

Quotes by Alice Ripley

Any kind of grieving that is not allowed causes a break. In our culture, grieving in public is not encouraged, but in…

Chance

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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…

Closure

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'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.

Music

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I've always been inspired by Patti LuPone.

Always

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I'm a strong follower of hydrotherapy.

Follower

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Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can't do that in the theatre.

I can

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There were eleven kids, and we all shared a bathroom. It was enough to drive us all insane.

Bathroom

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I love every minute of my work.

Every

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I have learned that music comes in all shapes and sizes.

I have learned

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I wasn't a musical-theater kid. We went to plays at school and took field trips to see Shakespeare. And that really sparked…

Fire

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I love D.C. I love working there.

I love

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Oh my God, I love Max von Essen.

God

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For me, in the audition, the song that you choose should make you cry. It doesn't matter why: it could be because…

Choose

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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…

Growth

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I love having a basement.

Basement

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Sometimes you're the only one who thinks you have a good idea.

Good

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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.

Actor

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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…

Art

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I was 14. I went to see a production of 'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,' and when…

Alive

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When it comes to your creative life and what it's going to take, you will do a disservice to everybody if you…

Creative life

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I don't honestly have the time or energy to support anybody else's cause but my own, which is self-expression. So I guess,…

Education

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It's hard being a Barbie doll all the time.

Barbie

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The road's a tough life, but I said 'yes,' because as a kid growing up in Ohio, I never had a chance…

Chance

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Sometimes a job comes to you, and you didn't ask for it. Your work in the past hires you, and that's nice.

In the past

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I love New York City. I really do. I 'heart' New York.

City

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