Northrop Frye Quotes
Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.
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It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.
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I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.
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I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story.
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I'm always, all the time, eating chocolate. I eat pretty healthy, but then I go all out when it has to do with chocolate.
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One of the major issues that's constantly batted around Hollywood and the media is my industry's responsibility toward the portrayal of violence. There's the irony of the films that glorify it and the individuals taking positions against it. It's a very confusing, confounding place.
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Actually, lots of women, when they're pregnant, feel like steel. They feel incredible.
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Although each human rights victory energizes us to continue our work, there remains a deep sorrow for those prisoners still wrongfully languishing in jail.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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Every generation finds the drug it needs.
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How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her.
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I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long
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I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?
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My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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We who go a-fishing are a peculiar people. Like other men and women in many respects, we are like one another, and like no others, in other respects. We understand each other's thoughts by an intuition of which we know nothing. We cast our flies on many waters, where memories and fancies and facts rise, and we take them and show them to each other, and small or large, we are content with our catch.
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Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.
