Northrop Frye Quotes
Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
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There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.
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Any Southerner is spoiled when it comes to food.
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I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
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Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
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The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers and fruits each according to their kind, many birds and little birds which sing very sweetly.
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There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.
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In 1985, I joined my mother in a protest against apartheid in which we were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. And she was at President-elect Mandela's side in Johannesburg when he claimed victory in South Africa's first free elections.
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Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.
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To unambiguously settle the questions of whether there was life on Mars, it will take scientists down on the surface.
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I'm an athlete, so I can get up one day and run and it wouldn't bother me. I don't get the time because I work for long hours every day. Being constantly on the move itself helps me stay fit. I don't go to a gym. I use the stairs, not the lift. I'm not into fitness, but I feel I should start, as it's healthy.
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Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.
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I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.
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Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.
