Northrop Frye Quotes

The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment.

Northrop Frye

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• Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

  

  Larry Brown
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  • Kids
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• Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.

  

  Callie Khouri
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• Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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• I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
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• I had this dream in my head of, if I got hired by 'SNL, what that moment would be like. And I dreamed that I would, like, collapse on the sidewalk and cry to the heavens. I got this call, and it didn't happen naturally. But I did it anyway because I wanted to have that moment. So I did collapse.

  

  Kate McKinnon
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• I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

  

  Adam Pascal
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  • Actor

• You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
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  • Honor
  • Contempt

• I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.

  

  Daddy Yankee
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  • Catchy

• I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

  

  Jackie Chan
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• I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • World

• Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.

  

  Barry Jenkins
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  • You

• Not everything can be solved quickly.

  

  Naftali Bennett
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• It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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  • Loneliness

• There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that.... Because it was not their fault.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • People

• Be aware of textural elements throughout a party, like silverware, stemware, and linens. But the biggest element is metaphorical: it's your own touch. How are you making people feel?

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People
  • Party

• The most important thing to keep in mind in being effective is focus.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Important
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• We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial e-mail accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account.

  

  James Comey
  • People

• Gentrification is a problem of poor planning.

  

  Aja Brown
  • Planning

• There can be no darkness where I provide the light.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Provide

• More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • Place
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• When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Wisdom
  • Compassion
  • Self

• The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment.

  

  Northrop Frye
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