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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
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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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Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.
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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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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.
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I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.
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As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
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You really have to play with the space in a riff so it can be allowed to breathe.
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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.
