Northrop Frye Quotes
The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.
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You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
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Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
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Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet. But it is finding an end to the recession.
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If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should approach me. No problem.
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But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.
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There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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What kind of business world are we living in?
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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
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I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.
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Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.
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I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
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I actually think that's true, that we kind of create our own hell.
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You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.
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I can say with confidence that I never bought into the hype, and I made sure that the people around me didn't buy into the hype, and I did not surround myself with people who fed me the hype. And I'm glad of that as well.
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Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
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I spent 23 years in the military. I think I'm in a good position to make those judgments on what is necessary in the military and what is not necessary, without buying a lot of things that would not really add to our security.
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The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.
