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.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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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.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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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.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
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I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
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I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.
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That Lana Del Rey is quite cute, isn't she? I quite like her.
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
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My first concert was 'Nsync.
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We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.
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It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
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Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.
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I think that the loss of the house call has been the biggest blow to the art of medicine in this century. Not only has the patient lost this precious attention, but the physician has not found a replacement for the lost intimacy.
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Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.
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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.
