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It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.
Todd Rundgren
People
Night
Way
Like
Bunny
Candy
Caught
Cover
Giant
Gratuitous
Haphazard
Leaving
Myth
Rabbit
Round
Act
Around
House
Seems
Shows
Tell
Totally
I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.
John Boorman
Look
Body
Think
See
Archetypes
Myth
Ought
Characters
Fit
Idea
Just
Play
Story
Terms
Those
Try
Where
Whole
I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.
Ashwin Sanghi
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
Frank Waters
History
Romantic
American
Joke
American History
Blot
Expansion
Myth
Westward
Seen
Whole
Contrary to the myth that the U.K. respects decisions of the Strasbourg court but many other adherent states do not, the convention and Strasbourg court judgements have proved a highly effective tool in protecting and developing human rights in countries with no tradition of the rule of law.
Dominic Grieve
Law
Tradition
Human
Rights
Contrary
Convention
Developing
Effective
Highly
Human Rights
Judgements
Myth
Protecting
Proved
Respects
Rule Of Law
Tool
Countries
Court
Decisions
Many
Other
Rule
States
I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.
Ali Liebegott
Life
Believe
My Life
Happy
Hungry
Myth
Poorest
Being
Just
Poor
Really
Times
The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
Paul Di Filippo
Long
Fantasy
Beast
Myth
Sentient
Staple
Been
Fiction
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
Myself
Me
Nobody
Know
Auditions
Favors
Hour
Myth
Standing
Urban
Any
Anybody
Become
Did
Got
Hard
Her
Knows
Left
Like
Once
Party
Really
She
Then
Those
Worked
America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination.
Ivan Krastev
What makes Batman and what makes other superheroes work is the myth that when life is at its lowest, and when you need a hero, a hero swings down and helps you.
Paul Dini
Life
Work
Hero
You
Batman
Lowest
Myth
Superheroes
Swings
Down
Helps
Makes
Need
Other
Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.
James Lapine
Moral
Fairy
About
Lesson
Deals
Fairy Tales
Forces
Myth
Tales
Greater
Ourselves
Teach
Than
Which
The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.
Burn Gorman
Man
Son
Laugh
True
Cliches
Driven
Max
Myth
Overnight
Young Man
Around
He
Just
Literally
Terrible
Turned
Two
Young
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The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.
Leo Bogart
Success
Great
More
Advertising
Apply
Great Idea
Measurements
Myth
Ratings
Realm
Recognition
Scores
Sum
Superficial
Cannot
Far
Idea
Other
Than
Which
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
Irwin Edman
American
Myth
Standardized
Least
Largely
Created
Themselves
My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name and work as a writer specialising in the Balkans has created a myth that I have Slavic connections, but actually I am British.
Misha Glenny
Work
Me
I Am
Father
Balkans
Connections
Distinguish
Myth
Russian
Translator
Actually
Am
British
Calling
Created
His
Michael
Name
Wanted
Writer
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
Arthur M. Schlesinger
Science
Technology
Memory
Tradition
Frame
Myth
Response
Revolutionize
Science And Technology
Lives
Our
Our Lives
Jackie Chan is a myth.
Jackie Chan
Myth
Jackie Chan
Jackie
Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
Edd Roush
Good
Place
Wrong
Theory
Good Ones
Hitting
Myth
Calling
However
Some
Too
Whole
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
Willard Van Orman Quine
Change
Words
Myth
Museum
Labels
Languages
Meanings
Semantics
Switch
Which
I think the biggest myth entrepreneurs have is that the growth and performance of their startups depends more on their entrepreneurial talent than on the businesses they choose.
Scott Shane
Growth
Talent
Think
More
Depends
Entrepreneurial
Entrepreneurs
Myth
Startups
Biggest
Businesses
Choose
I Think
Performance
Than
I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
Jack Zipes
Simple
Together
Legend
Book
Anecdote
Fairytale
Irresistible
Myth
Origin
Recent
Tale
Tall
About
Any
Call
Genre
Most
Order
Particularly
Really
Show
Something
Stories
Talk
Tried
Understand
It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.
Bob Kane
Truth
Difficult
Myth
Times
Separate
I say that a myth is a story which has particular energy, mythic resonance. I always say that a myth is a tear in the fabric of reality through which all of this spiritual energy pours.
Jay Parini
Reality
Spiritual
Energy
Always
Fabric
Myth
Mythic
Resonance
Tear
Particular
Say
Story
Through
Which
Actually, a myth is a story that is not just not true, but it's a story that is especially true. And I think the myth of Jesus is especially true.
Jay Parini
Think
True
Story
Just
Jesus
Myth
Actually
I Think
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
Norman Davies
Reality
Job
Difference
Myth
Historian
Myths
Ridicule
Between
Show
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.
Michael Morpurgo
Great
Children
Genius
Know
Alice
Great Book
Grownups
Lights
Myth
Northern
Whereas
Wonderland
Book
Books
Easier
Than
Truly
Whether
Works
Writing
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy
Truth
Great
Lie
Enemy
Contrived
Deliberate
Dishonest
Great Enemy
Myth
Often
Persistent
Persuasive
Truth Is
Unrealistic
Very
In the 'era of colorblindness,' there's a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we, as a nation, have 'moved beyond' race.
Michelle Alexander
Nation
Desire
Race
Beyond
Cling
Era
Fanatical
Moved
Myth
Nearly
I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
Robert Smith
Think
Living
Edge
Myth
Crap
Pile
I Think
When you talk about Puyol, you speak of a myth of football.
Aymeric Laporte
You
Football
Speak
Talk
Myth
About
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