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.
Quotes to Explore
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I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.
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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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Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.
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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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'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
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We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.
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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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Dogs are more loyal. Cats are fickle.
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My urge, when I go to the store, is to buy everything. And it's the same when I'm composing. My first instinct is basically to bring the whole store home, and not make a decision about how things play out.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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Science fiction, in its purest form, for me, it works the best when it's being used as metaphor to look at something from a one-step-removed process, to give a little objectivity and insight into something that, if you were applying it on the face of it, we'd all be too close to.
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The forest would absorb her, she thought, it would keep her until the future showed itself.
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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.
