Northrop Frye Quotes
No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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The area we define as what Quora's good at is long-form text that's useful over time, and where you care about who wrote the text. Not that you need to be friends with them, just that they're someone trustworthy.
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When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist!
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Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.
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In general, fashion is challenging. Everything from clothes to fragrances.
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The problems of our country are very fast to recognize.
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Everything comes out of what works for me.
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One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.
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I was maybe 10 or 11 when I saw 'Titanic.' And, yes, I was a fan. I loved it.
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Most people feel weird about white heels, but I love them and wear them with everything, especially when I need to mix up an all-black outfit.
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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
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I will be a president in a skirt, but I will wear the pants.
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I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.
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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
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No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself
