Northrop Frye Quotes
In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.Northrop Frye
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
Ted Sarandos -
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
Hans Blix -
When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
Patricia Briggs -
I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
Nadia Giosia -
If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
Dambisa Moyo -
My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
Victoria Woodhull -
I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
Nancy Sinatra -
Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
Larry Gagosian -
There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.
Edmonia Lewis
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I don't have to wear any other makeup as long as I have blush.
Victoria Justice -
Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.
Lloyd Bentsen -
I like the fact that I'm from the South and that I have this rich history behind me. I come from a family of storytellers. They can't just tell you how someone went to the store. They have to tell you who they saw, what they were wearing, what they said, what they had in their grocery cart.
Kimberly Willis Holt -
I always felt like there were always egos involved when I was trying to get music finished in New Order. Sometimes it would feel like I was running through water.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more.
Dora Russell -
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis Bacon
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When you are really in love, you become vulnerable, and insecurities come out of nowhere.
Laz Alonso -
Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.
Cameron Dokey -
I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
Randa Haines -
To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
Kat Graham -
The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.
David Bailey -
In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.
Northrop Frye