Northrop Frye Quotes
I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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When memories fade, can one ever really return home?
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.
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Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.
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Think with your whole body.
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The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.
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Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.
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It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching as a kid. Guys like that, they were hilarious and didn't have to be super vile or X-rated.
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A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive, independent profit centres, and thus destroy the system. . . . The secret is cooperation between components toward the aim of the organization. We can not afford the destructive effect of competition.
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I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.
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In all the broad Universe there is no other hope for Man than ourselves.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I believe all literature started as gossip.
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I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.
