Northrop Frye Quotes
This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.
Quotes to Explore
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I bought a girl roses once.
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I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.
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Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.
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Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
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Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
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Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
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People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?
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The manifestation of the Divinity must be understood to be in greater degree in those who are honoured, respected, and obeyed by a large following, than in those who have gained no such influence.
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'She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,' cried the young Student; 'but in all my garden there is no red rose.'
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The sun in his golden chariot had driven almost to the last meadow of the sky.
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It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.
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Senator Graham would have been very difficult to beat. He'd been governor for two terms. He's a U.S. Senator. He has a lot of friends; he's done a lot of favors to help a lot of people in Florida. So the fact that he's not running really does change the whole landscape in Florida.
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Loving the country, wanting to preserve the culture and identity - protecting the interests of the Americans in America, of the French in France, of the Israelis in Israel - seems to me perfectly legitimate.
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This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.
