Northrop Frye Quotes

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

Northrop Frye

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• There is more to life than show business.

  

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• For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

  

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• One shouldn't know the future.

  

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• I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

  

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• I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

  

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• Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

  

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• The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.

  

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• If your heart is in love, you can do anything.

  

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• The point of the future is that anything can happen.

  

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• I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.

  

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• Every child has a right to learn in an environment that is safe.

  

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• I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.

  

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• Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

  

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• I want you to be able to go to Aquazzura and find a shoe for every occasion, whether that's a red carpet ball or picking up your kids from school.

  

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• Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.

  

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• My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face to face with God I will discover that through my obedience thousands were blessed. When once God's Redemption comes to the point of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me to other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.

  

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• In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.

  

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• Hope that, in future, all is well, everyone eats free, no one must work, all just sit around feeling love for one another.

  

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• In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

  

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• I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.

  

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• It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Language
  • Clear
  • Surrender