Northrop Frye Quotes
Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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Naked dudes are inherently funny.
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
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Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.
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I don't want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I'd like to do.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
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Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.
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In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
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We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.
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This is all to which weak and limited beings can pretend, beings who occupy a point, and last but a moment in this mighty edifice built for eternity.
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I've struggled enough in my life to be appreciated and understood. I've had to go against all kinds of people through the years just to be myself. I think everybody should be allowed to be who they are, and to love who they love. I don't think we should be judgmental. Lord, I've got enough problems of my own to pass judgment on somebody else.
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Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.
