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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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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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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We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.
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I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.
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The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.
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My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass.
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Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.
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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
