Northrop Frye Quotes
The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.
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The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women... What was the war on women?
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The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.
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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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I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
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When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
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I love Chanel.
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It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
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I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.
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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
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No great thing is created suddenly.
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Politicians - in both political parties - spend too much money. And they forget to focus on what matters most: fixing the economic mess they created and putting people back to work.
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As an actor, your focus is very finite. All you're worried about is your character and what you have to do, what your goals are in this scene and in this piece of material. Whereas, as the director, everything is your responsibility. I enjoy carrying the load like that and being the responsible party.
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
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All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
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The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.
