Northrop Frye Quotes
A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes.
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Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
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Sometimes I feel it would be nice to have a bit more privacy.
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I lived on the Greek side of Cypress, and I think that's also where my interest in politics really started to come alive. It was the first time that I was told I couldn't go somewhere: My grandfather's house is on the Turkish side, but we were not allowed to go there.
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I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.
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Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.
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James Baldwin is probably the biggest influence on me from a literary perspective.
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You see, there weren't these magazines like 'Heat' in my day. Always waiting to trip up these pretty girls and make them seem something horrible, something to make them look stupid and small and ugly and disgusting.
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The wonderful thing about my husband is that we are very good at being independent.
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Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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The Go Red for Women campaign raises awareness of the risk of heart disease. I think a lot of people don't realize that heart disease is the number one killer of women. So what we're doing is encouraging women to tell five other women to learn more about heart disease and how they can prevent it.
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I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop.
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A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
