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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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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I think less is more. Sephora has these nude themes, which is like 'no make-up' make-up.
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These two staples of work life - meetings and managers - are actually the greatest causes of work not getting done at the office. In fact, the further away you are from both meetings and managers, the more work gets done.
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At 25, I found myself anchoring coverage of President Clinton's impeachment trial from Capitol Hill for WTVH-TV in my hometown of Syracuse, New York. I then covered Hillary Clinton's first Senate run.
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Water, like many other resources, is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to the survival of all forms of life. The underlying question that sits at the core of my exploration is to what degree can we shape water before it begins to shape us.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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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.
