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 needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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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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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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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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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
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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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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom, where the old ways are taught, but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise.
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I actually didn't really start to get into the research of film until I was much older. I decided I wanted to direct a lot earlier than I started to do the research, which is really strange, but it is the case.
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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
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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.
