Myth Quotes
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What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.
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But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.
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No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.
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History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.
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You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.
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The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much as the public and we were in love with them just the same way. But we were four individuals who eventually recovered our individualities after being submerged in a myth.
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My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.
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The myth that 'old' guys can't write anything fresh is just a myth.
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It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
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I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and the Civil War and everything leading up to the Civil War, you start to understand that the myth is created when we think we understand a character and we reduce him to a kind of cultural national stereotype.
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Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the edges of two very distinct cultures, western European and American Indian.
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I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.
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The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections - not only between us and the natural world, but between us and the rest of humanity. Myths show us what we have in common with every other human being, no matter what culture we come from, no matter what century we live in. . .and at the same time, mythic stories and art celebrate our essential differences.
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We must first get over the myth that older workers can’t innovate.
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I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.
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Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.
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Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.
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Why is there this myth? People say, 'Oh, you are a style icon. You're 'French, French, French.' It's not true, you know; there are stylish people everywhere.
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The unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.
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It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.
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A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.
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With The Myth of Achievement Tests, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, and Tim Kautz have offered a wealth of insightful analysis and brought together a number of topics often treated separately to inform a comprehensive discussion of the growth, character, and impact of the GED that is truly monumental. This is a first-rate book.
