Alan Dundes Quotes
They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'
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I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
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If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.
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The will to win is the only thing.
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
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We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us?
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Our cellphones can do everything, but they're bad at letting us talk to each other.
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I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.
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For me, inventing video games was just one successful thing I had done among many others.
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Tupac has always been somebody who represented a higher consciousness of what it means on both sides of the coin to be black in America. He and Prince were leaders who moved to the beat of their own drum, and I can only hope to follow in their footsteps.
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Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party.
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My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
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And I stood arrow straightUnencumbered by the weightOf all these hustlers and their schemes.I stood proud, I stood tallHigh above it all.I still believed in my dreams.
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I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.
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I just feel like you're being realistic if you can laugh at yourself.
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If there were a song from 'West Side Story' that I would do, it would be 'Something's Coming,' but in a sense that put it in the right key for me and then do that one.
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The most outrageous shoe that I had to do was a shoe where the person gave me stones - precious stones - and say that I could do anything with precious stones.
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This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.
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I believe firmly in God's control in life.
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As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.
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We can never completely prevent another tragedy like the Boston Marathon attacks from happening. But every American should ask themselves if their community is as prepared as it could be.
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They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.
