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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
Oscar Isaac
You
Man
People
Some People
Myth
Believe
Other
Backs
Some
Could
Because
Self-Made
'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.
P. L. Travers
Myth
Monkey
Chaos
Books
Favorite
He
Because
Hindu
Lord
Friend
Loved
Wherever
Which
Much
Created
Really
Who
Based
To me, superhero movies are like Greek myth.
Patty Jenkins
Me
Myth
Superhero
Like
Greek
Movies
The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
Paul Di Filippo
Long
Beast
Myth
Been
Fiction
Fantasy
Sentient
Staple
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
Paul Ricoeur
History
World
Myth
Else
Destiny
Something
Something Else
Than
Explanation
A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that.
Peter Hook
Soul
Myth
Definitely
Tortured
Poetic
He
Sensitive
Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.
Phyllis Schlafly
Women
Myth
Country
Every
Abandoned
Idea
Combat
Israel
Feminist
Notion
Uses
Actual
The myth of my solitude makes me laugh.
Pope Benedict XVI
Me
Solitude
Myth
Laugh
Makes
A myth that operated for a year was that my broad structure secretly held a deadly body. I was so wary of my burgeoning tummy that I would conceal it by wearing very loose clothes.
Rana Daggubati
Myth
Year
Clothes
Broad
Secretly
Would
Wearing
Structure
Conceal
Operated
Deadly
Loose
Very
Held
Body
Wary
I don't have to mumble something under my breath when someone asks me what I do anymore. I can just say, definitively, 'I'm an author.' And the best part? That's not a myth. That's just the truth.
Rebecca Serle
Truth
Best
Me
Myth
Breath
Say
Best Part
Someone
Something
Part
Author
Just
Anymore
Ask
Mumble
The megapixel war in conventional cameras has been a total myth. It's taking us all in the wrong direction. Once a picture goes online, you're throwing away 95 to 98 percent of those pixels.
Ren Ng
War
You
Myth
Picture
Once
Those
Has-Been
Total
Percent
Online
Direction
Throwing
Wrong
Taking
Wrong Direction
Been
Cameras
Goes
Conventional
Us
Away
The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates.
Rene Girard
Myth
Machine
Contagion
Disappears
Behind
The myth of Good Guys and Bad Guys is one of the most pervasive we own, and morally grey anti-heroes are simply one of modern fiction's attempts to shake off that mythology and replace it with something a bit more honest.
Richard K. Morgan
Good
Myth
Own
Bit
Bad
Bad Guys
Morally
Shake
Something
Guys
More
Mythology
Attempts
Simply
Most
Off
Replace
Modern
Fiction
Grey
Pervasive
Good Guys
Honest
American public policy is run on a myth.
Richard Lamm
Myth
Run
Policy
American
Public
American Public
Public Policy
In interviews, I never wanted to play into the myth of, 'Yeah, I was sitting there doing nothing, and then made 'Slacker.'' No. I'd been making shorts, a Super-8 feature, and running a film society. I always try to stress to people that there's a lot of work involved and years of preparation. But no one wants to hear that part.
Richard Linklater
Work
People
Try
Stress
Made
Myth
Nothing
Preparation
Society
Interviews
Running
Feature
Never
No-One
Part
Involved
Always
Making
Yeah
Doing
Hear
Been
Years
Lot
Sitting
Wanted
Wants
Shorts
Then
Film
Play
I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world. I modify all the myths I use, but I stick very closely to their structure - it is the hidden teacher in me.
Rick Riordan
Teacher
Me
World
Myth
Think
Hidden
Out
Would
Structure
Tend
Myths
Stick
How
Were
Very
Closely
Happening
Modern-Day
Then
Modify
Explore
Use
Play
You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.
Rick Santelli
You
People
Myth
More
More People
Known
Because
Perpetuate
Stop
Need
When you're starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life.
Rivers Cuomo
Life
Work
Me
You
Myth
Assumptions
Took
Trial
Trial And Error
Out
About
Through
Counter
Does
Rock
How
Rock Star
Years
Error
Artist
Much
Means
Figure
Star
Basically
Starting
I kind of blew the doors off the myth that all heavy metalheads are Neanderthal and very limited in their ability to take on subject matter of any human depth.
Rob Halford
Matter
Myth
Doors
Kind
Ability
Take
Blew
Limited
Subject
Subject Matter
Off
Very
Any
The Doors
Human
Heavy
Depth
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
Robert Heller
Success
Management
Myth
First
Equals
Exists
Skill
Second
Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.
Robert Johnson
Good
Age
Will
Myth
Nothing
Entering
High
See
Through
Modern
Us
Hard
Consciousness
Need
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
Robert Penn Warren
Life
Man
Light
Myth
See
Poem
Rather
Poetry
Making
End
May
In The End
Which
Little
Capacity
Meaningful
Thing
The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.
Robert Trout
Example
Myth
Thomas
Philosopher
Thomas Jefferson
Philosophy
Locke
Easily
John
John Locke
Examining
Steered
For Example
How
American
Behind
Republic
American Republic
Jefferson
It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
Roddy Doyle
Time
Job
Myth
Big
Incredibly
Sold
Sexy
Dreary
Con
Most
Well
Because
Dublin
Dump
Place
Little
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
Roland Barthes
Lie
Confession
Myth
Neither
Nor
Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.
Ross MacDonald
Me
Made
Myth
Back
He
Greatest
Been
Freud
Trying
Psychiatry
Influences
Again
Turn
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