Myth Quotes - Page 33

• I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales and myths, magical stories. I think they are somehow closer to the sense of reality one feels today than the equally stylized 'realistic' story in which a great deal of selectivity and omission has to occur in order to preserve its 'realist' style.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Reality, Thinking, Order

  "Kubrick, Inside a Film Artist's Maze". Book by Thomas Allen Nelson, p. 14, 2000.

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• Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.

  Northrop Frye

  Book, Writing

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• We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook - if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.

  Julia Cameron

  Inspiration, Responsibility, Self

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.21, Penguin

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• I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

  Zoe Kazan

  Creativity, Men, Pygmalion

  "Zoe Kazan’s LA Dream Girl". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2012.

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• To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Facts, Deny

  'The Concept of Mind' (1949) introduction

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• The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.

  Garry Wills

  Loneliness, Artist, Creating

  Garry Wills (1979). “Confessions of a conservative”, Doubleday Books

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• One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

  Caryl Rivers

  Engineering, Political, Great Inventions

  Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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• It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in myths and folk art. This may be. My interest in the dynamics of Jugend style probably also comes into it.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, Eye, Style

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this process has been the normal relation between images and words.

  Asger Jorn

  Inspire, Important, Normal

  Letter to anthropologist Francis Huxley, 1970.

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• The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Lying, Greatness, Office

  Clinton Rossiter (1960). “The American Presidency”

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• Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.

  Denis MacShane

  Europe, Potters, Fantasy

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• So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.

  Henri Bourassa

  Country, Europe, Two

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• I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.

  Marilyn Quayle

  Brain, Wedding Ring, Rings

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• . . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

  Roy Wilkins

  Passion, Reality, Roots

  Roy Wilkins, Tom Mathews (1982). “Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins”, Viking Adult

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• Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so many scientists who believe in dowsing that the suspicion comes to me that it may only be a myth after all.

  Charles Fort

  Believe, May, Belief

  Charles Fort (1941). “The Complete Books of Charles Fort”, p.1048, Courier Corporation

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• To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.

  Walt Disney

  Drama, Simple, Evil

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• By asseting the creation myth, in which God is a man over ealier creation myths in which God was viewed as a woman, men hoped to prove that the position of supremacy that they had assumed was Divine Law.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Law, Enlightenment

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• There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential neighborhoods so long that when one of us is finally sold a home, it's already depreciated.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Home, Long, Facts

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I think the food giants are realizing that one of the big myths of them is that they can innovate.

  Michael Moss

  Thinking, Giants, Realizing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Christmas is fun anyway. It's a myth organized over the years and gained different mythological qualities as the years go by.

  William Shatner

  Fun, Years, Quality

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Real, Ideas, Constructs

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• When you’re living in the moment, you’re living in the moment; whatever that moment is, that’s your reality. Everything else is a myth.

  Steven Heller

  Reality, Live In The Moment, Moments

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• It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for ignoble reasons. There is nothing patriotic about that. It is the opposite of patriotism.

  George Galloway

  Patriotic, Opposites, Soldier

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• Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp. Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of dust by day; the thornbush breaks into flame at night. What does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, Lying, Mean

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• The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to the radio, can help when driving itself is threatening to cause fatigue. But we buy into the myth of multitasking with little actual knowledge of how much we can really add in or, as with the television news, how much we are missing. As the inner life of the driver begins to come into focus, it is becoming clear not only that distraction is the single biggest problem on the road but that we have little concept of just how distracted we are.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Thinking, Focus, Missing

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