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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When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.
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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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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
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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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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
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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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Racism is a part of a problem, a world problem, which has to be overcome.
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I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?
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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.
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The biggest mistake in my life was hiring Eaton as chairman without checking him out first, ... I didn't know him and hired the wrong guy, an error of judgment. When you make a bad people choice it hurts a lot of people for a long time.
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This is just a preliminary study of this facility.
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A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
