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.
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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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Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us.
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What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
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Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.
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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.
