Northrop Frye Quotes
In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.
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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
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A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.
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Three women in my family, close relatives, have had breast cancer, and two have died from it, and still I never thought it could happen to me. I didn't even regularly check my breasts.
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I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.
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In general, I don't really think too much about pacing, myself. You kind of look at each script and what each script demands.
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It's about a young girl who will stop at nothing to be the valedictorian of her class. It's very dark and very wicked, but it's got a great part for a kid, and a great part for an older woman.
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My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.
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I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.
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I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I would be thinking about it all day, and I would be thinking about it when I went to sleep. Without distraction I would have the same thing going round and round in my mind.
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There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.
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Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.
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In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.
