Northrop Frye Quotes
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.
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I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.
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I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.
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Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?
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I don't have a trainer. I have what I call 'the poor man's workout and the rich man's diet.' I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if it's 3 in the morning.
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Every crowd has a silver lining.
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I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.
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Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.
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Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.
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On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.
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Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for one would not know what one has accepted. The request for the meaning of a religious belief is logically prior to the question of accepting that belief on faith or to the question of whether that belief constitutes knowledge.
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The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.
