Northrop Frye Quotes
Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.Northrop Frye
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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.
Gary Bettman -
It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
L. Sprague de Camp -
If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
Fedor Emelianenko -
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.
Hans Blix -
People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
Barry Diller -
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.
Laura Mvula
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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.
Victoria Aveyard -
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.
T. C. Boyle -
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.
Zoey Deutch -
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.
Taylor Sheridan -
Actually, lots of women, when they're pregnant, feel like steel. They feel incredible.
Olivia Colman -
Although each human rights victory energizes us to continue our work, there remains a deep sorrow for those prisoners still wrongfully languishing in jail.
Nazanin Boniadi
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Every generation finds the drug it needs.
P. J. O'Rourke -
How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her.
Lafcadio Hearn -
When they talk about legal status, that's code for second-class status.
Hillary Clinton -
Une maison est une machine-à-habiter.
Le Corbusier -
I've been writing and making my own music for a long time.
Patti Scialfa -
How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?
Jose Padilha
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There's nothing like confidence.
Mike Tyson -
Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
Benjamin Graham -
Artists don't like the business side. None of us were born understanding money. We all had to learn how to do it. So it's just something creative people need to get familiar with... not really so scary.
Adam Leipzig -
Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.
Northrop Frye