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.Alan Dundes
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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.
Fede Alvarez -
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?'
Vera Farmiga -
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.
Felix Hernandez -
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.
J. G. Ballard -
If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.
Olga Kurylenko -
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch Spinoza
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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?
Ban Ki-moon -
Our cellphones can do everything, but they're bad at letting us talk to each other.
Rainbow Rowell -
I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.
Vince Gill -
For me, inventing video games was just one successful thing I had done among many others.
Ralph Baer -
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.
Kat Graham -
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.
Taylor Swift
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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.
Barack Obama -
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.
Bob Seger -
I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.
Lindsay Duncan -
I just feel like you're being realistic if you can laugh at yourself.
Lucy Dacus -
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.
Alice Ripley -
I believe firmly in God's control in life.
Charles R. Swindoll
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...for the truth is, I am gone something further in hate to the English Government than perhaps you and the rest of my friends are, and certainly further than can with prudence be avowed. The triumph of the French Government over the English does in fact afford me a degree of pleasure which it is very difficult to disguise.
Charles James Fox -
Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger -
I'm big into mountain biking.
Dean Ambrose -
Big romantic gestures are only as strong as the relationships they happen in.
Josh Gondelman -
Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are.
Keke Palmer -
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.
Alan Dundes