Myth Quotes
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.
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If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
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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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I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.
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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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It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
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Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.
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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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The myth that 'old' guys can't write anything fresh is just a myth.
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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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Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a body of recurring imagery that "freezes" into a single metaphor cluster, the metaphors all being identified with the body of the Messiah, the man who is all men, the totality logoi who is one Logos, the grain of sand that is the world.
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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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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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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 guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.
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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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Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
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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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If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children.
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Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.
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History is a myth that men agree to believe.
