Northrop Frye Quotes
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.
Quotes to Explore
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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I love Austin for vintage shopping, and there are some really good places in L.A., too.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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Life is our dictionary.
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I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.
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The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
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'That guy was a homo - as sure as you're alive.' - Robertson, describing a caller during his appearance on the Larry King Show (Windows Media Video)
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It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
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The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
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My marriage to David Bailey ended one morning in 1983, while he was away on a photo-shoot.
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My wife and I had been to the genetic counselor; my wife is not Jewish - she's the shiksha goddess type - and was negative for everything. But I was positive. I carried the gene for three genetic disorders, which, if she had been positive for, we would have passed down to the child.
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Relationships do change throughout the course of your life, and I always think in terms of relationships changing and evolving rather than starting and stopping.
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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.
