Northrop Frye Quotes
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
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Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
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I'm inspired every day by the great captains of industry and enlightened entrepreneurs like my great-great-grandfather and founder of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli, who personally knew all his workers and gave so much to this country, or Adriano Olivetti, unique and innovative in every way.
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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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I never thought of runningMy feet just led the way
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Like a steely blade in a silken sheathWe don't see what they're made ofThey shout about love, but when push comes to shoveThey live for the things they're afraid ofAnd the knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them...- The Weapon (Part II of 'Fear') (1982)
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Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and if possible, stay long enough to get a real feeling for what's going on.
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I met Jason on a charity walk in 2001, and we got married on a friend's boat in Panama two years later. It was the perfect wedding for two people who'd already been married and who weren't teenagers.
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I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.
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Half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm funny-looking and ugly. The other half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm fascinating. Everything neutralises. It's more of a statement on society and how weird it is.
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A lot of people my age think stand up sucks.
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Sports is like literature. People watch it and if it's beautiful and it's non-violent, whatever messages that you see, people can read into it and say, "Wow! You know what? Whatever they're doing over there, it's extraordinary, and maybe that culture is superior to ours in certain ways."
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Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.
