Northrop Frye Quotes
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Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them.
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There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.
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Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.
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Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.
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Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
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Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You roll with it; that's the beauty of it all.
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French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.
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Webster was much possessed by deathAnd saw the skull beneath the skin
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I can feel your heartbeat, Where I lay my head ‘Cause you’ve got me Yeah you’ve got me
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Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But as the world, harmoniously confus'd, Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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The most important thing that most countries around the world believe in is letting the markets determine the currency.
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Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
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I love Jimi Hendrix obviously, and Jimmy Page and Prince. And also Elvis Presley is a really great guitar player. I don't think he ever took lessons; he was piecing it together himself. But he has great rhythm. And rhythm, to me, you can use it to your advantage if you're not all over the fretboard.
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My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It'll bring tears to your eyes.
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A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
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I never made any money, but I had the best jobs in the world.
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As women, we have super powers. We are sisters. We are healers. We are mothers. We are goddess warriors.
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
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The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
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Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.
