Alan Dundes Quotes

Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.

Alan Dundes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 8, 1934 - March 30, 2005

Topics

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We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

Joe Lonsdale

ProgressAdaptLivingRisingAbove

Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.

Michael Bloomberg

GovernmentYouTellWhomMarry

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

Michael Eric Dyson

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I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

John Shirley

WritingThinkWithoutSocialHeavy

It is by these, the people, that I have been clothed with the high powers which they have seen fit to confide to their Chief Executive, and been charged with the solemn responsibility under which those powers are to be exercised.

John Tyler

ResponsibilityPeopleHighSeenBeen

I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.

Tony Visconti

LoveLogicOldSameYearsUp

Ang Lee is very precise. He will show you everything, and will let you know what he is thinking about the whole project. There are a lot of rehearsals before shooting, and you already reach a certain standard. Then he will ask for more.

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

ThinkingReachYouKnowWillMore

They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation.

Michael York

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One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything - is that you don't have to make an effort to envisage the worlds that he writes about.

Luke Evans

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You can divide my life into two.

Lord Mountbatten

LifeMy LifeYouTwoDivide

I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.

Jason Patric

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I think that's part of acting - to still get nervous and control that fear. I don't know how to get rid of that.

Jordi Molla

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