Northrop Frye Quotes
The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.
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When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.
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I have never seen homosexual chicken or turkey.
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I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.
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Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
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Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
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'SNL' is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That's the show I got known from.
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Stay in your heart.
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I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.
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The manifestation of the Divinity must be understood to be in greater degree in those who are honoured, respected, and obeyed by a large following, than in those who have gained no such influence.
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EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.1
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A repertory, a patrimony of ballets, tended as carefully as the collection of 600-year-old bonsai in Tokyo's Imperial Palace conservatory, is not replaced; it is preserved, maintained, refreshed to give rebirth by grafting and seedlings.
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When I was younger I would have told you it was my genius, but now I don't believe that for a second. Music just comes out of you, it flows through, it's weird. If you think about it intellectually, how does someone come up with two hundred riffs over their life time?
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Presume not that I am the thing I was.
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
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The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.
