Northrop Frye Quotes

The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy.

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• When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.

  

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• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  

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• In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.

  

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• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
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• I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'

  

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• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

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• The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.

  

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• The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.

  

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• Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.

  

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• Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

  

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• I have learned how to better handle things as they come.

  

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• I don't really love roller coasters because I feel like they're filled with germs and make me nauseous.

  

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• Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

  

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• And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.

  

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• Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.

  

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• I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.

  

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• It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.

  

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• If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

  

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• Mozart resolved his emotions on a level that transformed them into moods uncontaminated by mortal anguish, enabling him to express the angelic anguish that is so peculiarly his own.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin

• How I wish you could see the potential The potential of you and me It's like a book elegantly bound, but In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love You got to spend some time with me And I know that you'll find love I will possess your heart

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
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• As long as we’ve got somewhere to sleep, a bowl of cereal, and a coloring book we’ll be fine.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
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• The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Book
  • Difficult
  • Revelations