Northrop Frye Quotes
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.
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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.
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In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
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Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.
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Obviously, I don't live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like there's definitely something to it.
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Michael Jordan was that guy - he was Michael Jordan. So whatever he did, we followed.
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In England women are still occasionally used instead of horses for hauling canal boats, because the labour required to produce horses and machines is an accurately known quantity, while that required to maintain the women of the surplus population is below all calculation.
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God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
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We have peered into a new world and have seen that it is more mysterious and more complex than we had imagined. Still more mysteries of the universe remain hidden. Their discovery awaits the adventurous scientists of the future. I like it this way.
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Every time he makes plans for his future, he seems to fail. Every time he reaches forward, the world leans against him, pressing him down.
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To finance deficits, the government must sell bonds to investors, competing for capital that could otherwise be used to invest in stocks or corporate bonds. Government borrowings raise long-term interest rates, stifling economic growth.
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It is to the advantage of Hispanics not to be taken for granted by one party and ignored by the other. Hispanics will realize their political power only if courted and engaged by both sides.
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We don't have some message from God that gives us a list of what's good and what's not good. Obviously, we have to make our own flawed judgments about each thing.
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I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.
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I'm a journeyman actor. My experience as a journeyman actor is that you have to go where the work is. I've never been the lead; I've never been in that position.
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I eat like a horse!
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I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
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The best opportunity for return on investment is in the information revolution.
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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days.
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Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.
