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Personally I'm more into science and engineering types of things, not so much into testing 'Star Wars' myths.
Jamie Hyneman
Science
Engineering
Types
More
Myths
Testing
Personally
Much
Wars
Star
Star Wars
Things
One of the myths about Dad was that he was mean. That simply wasn't true. I always found him generous to a fault but he wasn't reckless with his money, which was rather rare in Hollywood. He'd grown up with nothing and he wasn't about to fritter it all away.
Jennifer Grant
Money
Fault
Rare
Nothing
Reckless
About
Rather
He
Myths
Simply
True
Generous
Him
Always
His
Up
Which
Mean
Hollywood
Dad
Found
Grown
Away
Grown-Up
The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually understood as occurring in some kind of vacuum - because of slavery.
Jesmyn Ward
Kind
Some
Classical
Writers
Myths
Like
Because
Understood
American
Models
African
African-American
Stories
Use
Reason
American Writers
Slavery
Vacuum
There are black marriages that are still going strong 40 years later. You hear so many myths that there aren't any people making it, but there are. As long as there are some, there's hope.
Jill Scott
Hope
You
People
Strong
Black
Long
Later
Marriages
Some
Myths
Making
Still
Hear
Years
Any
Going
Many
I don't really know football from the Seventies and Eighties. It's all myths and legends to me.
Joe Hart
Me
Seventies
Football
Myths
Know
Legends
Eighties
Really
Texas is so wrapped up in myth and legend, it's hard to know what the state and its people are really about. Real Texans, raised on these myths and legends, sometimes become legends themselves.
Joe R. Lansdale
People
Sometimes
Myth
Become
Legend
State
Wrapped
About
Myths
Know
Real
Texans
Texas
Up
Legends
Themselves
Really
Hard
Raised
I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.
John Brunner
More
Fact
Myths
Always
Falsehoods
Than
Infinitely
Interesting
Found
One of the myths you see in entrepreneurship is that people have this dream one night, wake up the next morning, and start building it. It's actually much more of an iterative process.
John Collison
Morning
You
People
Wake Up
Building
Dream
See
One-Night
More
Entrepreneurship
Myths
Wake
Up
Process
Much
Next
Next Morning
Actually
Start
Night
Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life.
John Singleton
Life
Me
People
World
Black
White
Out
Myths
Know
Because
Making
Might
White World
Appalled
Honest
Honest People
The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.
John Updike
Life
Success
Religion
Spiritual
Cinema
Losing
Church
Beauty
Big
Christian
Everywhere
Spiritual Life
More
More And More
Myths
Supports
Ideas
Retreating
Fame
Than
Done
Big Screen
Screen
Influence
Whereas
Us
Filled
Film
Originate
Christian Religion
Images
Vacuum
Because I was an only, I had more things, and I remember early on the kick I got from giving stuff away. Despite all the myths about only children not being able to share, actually I've never knowingly met a stingy one.
Julie Burchill
Remember
Giving
Met
Despite
Kick
Able
About
More
Only
Never
Had
Share
Myths
Stuff
Knowingly
Because
Got
Stingy
Being
Children
Away
Actually
Things
Early
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
Karl Rove
You
Seen
Myth
Own
About
Myths
Town
Like
Know
Look
Talked
Sort
Subject
Existence
Very
Often
Creates
Washington
Amusement
I don't care what people's myths are about me.
Kelly Lynch
Me
People
Care
About
Myths
True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
Kent McCord
You
Business
Insist
Would
About
Fade
Myths
True
Friendships
Hollywood
Show
Show Business
Many
Throughout my childhood, I did a form of Irish dancing that was kind of the precursor to 'Riverdance.' It was a mixture of ballet and Irish dancing that my teacher, Patricia Mulholland, had invented, essentially. It was Irish ballet, and she would create performances based around the myths and legends of Ireland.
Laura Donnelly
Teacher
Dancing
Kind
Would
Invented
Throughout
Had
Myths
Performance
She
Around
Ballet
Mixture
Ireland
Irish
Did
Legends
Childhood
Precursor
Essentially
Form
Create
Based
The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales, newspapers, novels, films, works of art of all kinds.
Lee Hall
Art
Theatre
Every
Films
Medium
Folk
Find
Kinds
Myths
Tales
Always
Been
Newspapers
Works
Novels
Mill
There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.
Marianne Faithfull
Attitude
You
Out
Detach
About
Had
Myths
Know
Because
Um
Turn
Really
Many
Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars.
Mark Gatiss
Home
World
Way
Those
Vampires
Horror
Develop
Myths
New
Like
Particularly
Witchcraft
Leaving
Tradition
Were
Werewolves
Processing
Room
Hollywood
Much
Europe
Wars
Two
World Wars
Greek myths, early Roman history, is configured around violence against women. And I think we need to get in there, get our hands dirty, face it, and see why and how it was.
Mary Beard
History
Women
Face
Think
Our
See
Dirty
Myths
Around
How
Greek
Get
Hands
Roman
Against
Why
Early
Violence
Need
I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
Mary Garden
About
Write
Myths
Divorce
Decided
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
Mary Ritter Beard
Woman
Mind
Men
Complete
Must
Rated
Myths
Most
Dogma
Subjection
Historical
Human
Fantastic
Created
Human Mind
Ever
The amount of sleep - the total amount of sleep that you get - starts to decrease the older that we get. I think one of the myths out there is that we simply need less sleep as we age, and that's not true, in fact.
Matthew Walker
You
Age
Older
Think
Starts
Out
Total
Fact
Myths
Simply
True
Get
In Fact
Decrease
Less
Amount
Need
Sleep
I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe was there something in the traditional sense? I believe that this stuff came from somewhere other than people's imaginations.
Megan Fox
People
Somewhere
Sense
Believe
Other
Pot
Something
Charms
Myths
Stuff
Like
Came
Traditional
Traditional Sense
Irish
Than
Maybe
Gold
Lucky
Imaginations
One of the hardiest myths in British public life is that there is a conspiracy of silence on immigration. Liberals and leftists, it is alleged, have bandied together to prevent debate or discussion of 'mass immigration' into the U.K., caused by Labour's 'open door' policies.
Mehdi Hasan
Life
Silence
Together
Immigration
Debate
Conspiracy
Liberals
Alleged
Prevent
Open
Myths
Open Door
Mass
Policies
Caused
Bandied
Discussion
Labour
Door
Public
Public Life
British
But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
Michael Shermer
Science
Age
Live
Our
Myths
Because
Preoccupation
I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.
Michelle Paver
Ancient
Myths
Greece
Egypt
Loved
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