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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In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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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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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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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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It's not enough for Hollywood to make a bunch of gay movies. That's obviously a big part of the equation, but then gay people have to show up for those movies.
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One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".
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The whole immigration issue suggests the inevitability of people in our time seeking economic security that they can't find at home, which usually involves bringing their religion with them. One's children are going to be married to people outside their religious traditions as well as inside.
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I've always been interested in this idea of looking at these monster stories and trying to really understand the mechanics underneath. That's very much true of this movie I made, 'All Good Things,' as well as 'Catfish,' which I produced.
Andrew Jarecki -
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.
