Northrop Frye Quotes
We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
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Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.
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I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
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When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'
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The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.
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I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
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What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
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Legal and economic equality are absolutely necessary remedies for the Fall, and protection against cruelty.
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For John Wilkes Booth, sweeping, grand gestures were a way of life. It was how he navigated his way through this world. The bigger and bolder, the better.
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I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.
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As soon as 'Hide Away' came out, it was like everyone knew who I was, and I started getting all this attention. It was hard to get used to at first. I just remember that I suddenly couldn't walk down the hallways without hearing a classmate or teacher playing it - it was unreal!
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What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I can't believe I get to do this as a job.'
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I was always the serious kid.
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One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.
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Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.
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One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.
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Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
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When I was growing up as a child, a magazine, to me, was like a finger beckoning me to the future.
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I love improv. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things. And that felt like a muscle I hadn't exercised in a really long time.
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.
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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
