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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

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It's a myth that you need thousands of pounds to start a business. Sara Davies

You Business Myth Thousands Pounds Start Need

Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt. Sarah Zettel

I think the Christ-myth stories make great stories, whether it's 'The Matrix' or 'Braveheart,' they all are tapping into some kind of deep myth in our DNA, and by myth I don't necessarily mean false. Scott Derrickson

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It's become like an urban myth. I don't know her. I don't know anybody she knows. I was standing there at the party by myself for an hour and then I left. Once I got those auditions, I worked really hard. Nobody did me any favors. Shannyn Sossamon

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What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. Slavoj Zizek

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One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth. Smokey Robinson

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But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media. Stanley Crouch

Myth Solutions Ultimate Itself Much Popular Media Violent

The myth that 'old' guys can't write anything fresh is just a myth. Steve Lukather

Old Myth Guys Write Fresh Just Anything

The myth of the peachfuzz billionaire has emerged. This new Horatio Alger typically launches his first start-up in middle school, and somewhere between the campus computer-science lab and a move to Palo Alto hacks up a Web site where users provide fun or useful content. Steven Levy

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Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced. Steven T. Katz

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The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick. Suzanne Somers

Myth Sick Frail About Road Being Anything Biggest Decrepit Aging

I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it. Tariq Ali

Birthday Me Myth Reading Before Gave Months Someone Looked Shelves Did Legends Stop Many Sat Present Copy Pears

I resent it when they write the part of a woman who's just a sexy femme fatale who seduces people to ger her way, perpetrating the myth that that's how woman have to operate, instead of using their brains or their wit. Teri Garr

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There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way. Terri Windling

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The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction. Theresa Rebeck

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I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state. Thom Yorke

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For years, TransCanada has been selling the Keystone XL pipeline to Americans with all of the enthusiasm of a used car salesman - and using all of the same tricks. However, one myth is more egregious than all the rest: this pipeline will enhance America's energy independence. Tom Steyer

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I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age. Tom Wolfe

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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. V. S. Pritchett

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