Mythology Quotes - Page 8

• I'm very at home working with mythology.

  Tori Amos

  Home

  "Tori Amos: 20 years after her solo debut". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2011.

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• I have built my world through Native American mythology.

  Tori Amos

  Native American, World, Built

  "This much I know: Tori Amos". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Religious, Roots, Stories

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• A lot of the mythology that sprung up around Haile Selassie, it's not like something he asked for, having people deify him. That's pretty heavy. I don't know what you do in that situation.

  Conor Oberst

  People, Situation, Sprung

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.

  Jessica Lange

  Children, Father, Kids

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• I'll start with where we are right now. The map that I'll use is this birthing process, this kind of profound transition that we're going through, where the old narratives, the old story, the old mythology is wearing thin, beginning to fall apart. And as it does so, people hold on to it even more tightly. They haven't let go and won't let go until it becomes simply impossible to hold on to it anymore. And we're nearing that time, but not yet. Right now you can still pretend everything's normal, even though it's greatly hollowed out.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Letting Go, Fall, People

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

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• Steven Spielberg name is synonymous with Hollywood. You sometimes meet people who revel in their own mythology, and he doesn't feel like that, at all. He's very approachable, accessible and sweet. Even if he wasn't, I'd have to say that because the man runs everything.

  Zach Woods

  Running, Sweet, Men

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• I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.

  Ian Somerhalder

  New Orleans, Play, Vampire

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". labs.imdb.com.

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• It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

  Martin Scorsese

  Kings, Greek, Want

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• Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Witty, Literature, Good Christian

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• In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Education, Art, World

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• I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.

  Steve Sabol

  Football, Team, Struggle

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so I knew a lot of mythological monsters already. Sometimes I still use books and Web sites to research, though. Every time I research Greek mythology, I learn something new!

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after Norse mythology. She was also the first person to encourage me to submit stories for publication. The idea of writing a fantasy based on myths never left me, and many years later, this would lead me to write Percy Jackson.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Writing, Years

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• I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.

  Rick Riordan

  Character, Odin, Norse

  "Cover reveal: Rick Riordan's heroes meet in 'The Son of Sobek'". Interview with Lindsay Deutsch, www.usatoday.com. May 7, 2013.

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• There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we're just reimagining the same 12 story plots over and over again - so what makes people keep watching and listening? It's all about the character.

  Jeremy Renner

  Character, People, Greek

  "The Bourne Legacy's Jeremy Renner, action hero at last". Interview with Andrea Hubert, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2012.

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• I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.

  Robert Redford

  Believe, Culture, Share

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• I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, Order, Needs

  "Alan Moore Gets Psychogeographical With Unearthing". Interview With Scott Thill, www.wired.com. August 9, 2010.

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• I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for my opinions to join all the other opinions. But you have to be prepared for what comes back, especially if you don't agree with the dominant mythology.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Strong, Others Opinions, Giving

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• I had been a reader of THOR in college. I had read the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby stuff. I had loved it. I had been a Norse mythology fan since I was a kid and was thrilled to discover a comic that was kind of based on Norse mythology-there's not a one-to-one correspondence, but there's no reason there should be. I was delighted to find it, and I didn't care that it wasn't exactly the myth. For one thing, Thor didn't have red hair in the comics. I was fine with that.

  Walt Simonson

  Kids, College, Hair

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• I came away believing and really deeply troubled by is the extent to which you can have two well-intentioned people talking in a friendly spirit and you get to a point where the two mutual mythologies just don't intersect. So kind of the next piece I'd like to write or think about is how did this left-right divide get so weird and codified.

  George Saunders

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  "In Search For Answers, Author George Saunders Covers Trump Campaign". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. July 9, 2016.

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• It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.

  George Steiner

  Past, Mirrors, Other Cultures

  George Steiner (1974). “In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture”, p.3, Yale University Press

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• When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost every mythology sees the origins of life coming out of water. And, curiously, that's true. It's amusing that the origin of life out of water is in myths and then again, finally, in science, we find the same thing. It's exactly so.

  Joseph Campbell

  Rain, Origin Of Life, Icons

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.10, New World Library

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• I just always loved mythology, ever since I was a kid. Greek mythology was something I remember learning about in fourth grade, and Egypt, too, and something about both those things just clicked with me. I just thought they both were so beautiful and interesting to learn about.

  Brie Larson

  Beautiful, Kids, Egypt

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I love mythology, grew up loving it. I'm a middle kid, big family, that's the thing you did in the farm country. I lived in Iowa, I loved mythology. I don't know, we're like that.

  Kellan Lutz

  Country, Kids, Iowa

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