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Mythic Quotes
I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.
Arthur Boyd
Stress
Landscape
Uniqueness
Content
Australian
Metaphysical
Mythic
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
Gnomes are supposed to be good luck in a garden, protecting against pests and diseases. A mythic gatekeeper, in the way a Kitchen Witch is.
Kelly Asbury
Good
Luck
Way
Garden
Diseases
Good Luck
Kitchen
Mythic
Protecting
Witch
Against
Supposed
Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.
Chris Van Allsburg
Culture
True
Only
Old
Believed
Believers
Christmas
Eight
Fact
Figure
Large
Large Percentage
Mythic
Percentage
Pity
Population
Santa
True Believers
Truly
Most
Our
Years
Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so anyone who is consciously trying to pull that off I think is really interesting and clearly very smart.
Carrie Coon
You
Society
Smart
Think
Clearly
Familiar
Mythic
Pull
Symbolism
Tales
Anyone
Being
I Think
Interesting
Know
Literature
Major
Off
Our
Really
Sort
Trying
Used
Very
Ways
Who
Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon.
Jon Krakauer
Moon
People
Space
Like
Antarctica
Collective
Huge Impact
Impact
Mythic
Outer
Outer Space
Resides
So Many People
To The Moon
Unconscious
Weight
Going
Huge
Just
Makes
Many
Witches were part of my imaginary childhood playground, so I wanted to make an archetypal fairytale about the mythic idea of what New England was to me as a kid.
Robert Eggers
Me
Childhood
New
Make
Archetypal
England
Fairytale
Imaginary
Mythic
New England
Playground
Witches
About
Idea
Kid
Part
Wanted
Were
What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.
Pete Townshend
People
Look
Sometimes
Story
Earlier
Form
Internal
Models
Mythic
Operations
Order
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Started
Theatre
Using
Any
Much
Other
Tell
Than
I'm Irish in the mythic, romantic sense, but in the living sense, I'm a Londoner.
Sean Scully
Romantic
Living
Sense
Irish
Mythic
I don't think I'll ever be able to fully explain the way that the Velvet Underground's records opened a door in my head. But it has something to do with Lou Reed as a mythic figure: a person who fitted no category, who defied limits and trends and definitions.
Ezra Furman
Think
Way
Who
Limits
Category
Defied
Definitions
Explain
Fitted
Fully
Lou Reed
Mythic
Opened
Reed
Trends
Underground
Velvet
Able
Door
Ever
Figure
Head
Person
Records
Something
I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay with us.
John C. Reilly
Think
Movies
Big
Stay
Big Fan
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Fan
Heads
Knowing
Mythic
Sails
Storytelling
Tale
I Think
Kids
Most
Over
Reason
Right
Said
Something
Stories
Take
Them
Us
My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.
Vincent Schiavelli
Place
About
Almost
Town
Endless
Grandparents
Mythic
Became
Stories
Were
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I think 'The Searcher' is a departure from my first because it's less grounded in religion and is far more rooted in the mythic tradition: more of an existential thriller where the main character is actually the central mystery, and his journey is all about trying to figure himself out.
Simon Toyne
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom
Success
Failure
Disaster
Simply
Fiasco
Mythic
Proportions
I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.
R. J. Cutler
Life
Myself
Childhood
Moment
Adulthood
Figuring
Foot
Mythic
Periods
Teenage
Teenagers
Transformation
About
Always
Find
I Think
Other
Out
Really
Stories
Tell
Think
Those
Toward
Who
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom
Failure
Disaster
Difference
Between
Fiasco
Mythic
Proportions
What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.
Tom Hanks
Black And White
Men
Black
Doing
Audience
Band
Brothers
Flickering
Heroes
Myth
Mythic
Put
Recognize
Resonant
Screen
Story
Terms
Themselves
Trying
White
Human
Just
Want
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
Angela Carter
Women
Man
Men
Woman
Men And Women
Mythic
Proposes
Relations
Between
Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.
Greg Bear
Love
Sad
Memories
Beautiful
Buried
Childhood Memories
Covered
Mars
Mythic
Nerds
Triumphs
Also
Because
Childhood
Failure
Human
Much
Our
Stories
Tough
Why
'Avatar' was incredible and totally groundbreaking, but it wasn't about utter realism. It had a great mythic fantasy to it, but the characters don't seem totally photo-real, as amazing as they are.
Matt Reeves
Great
Amazing
Fantasy
About
Avatar
Mythic
Realism
Utter
Characters
Had
Incredible
Seem
Totally
Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos.
Mary Roach
People
Who
Legends
Like
Astronauts
Mythic
Regular
Regular People
Wear
Just
Really
I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.
Rian Johnson
I figure if someone calls something a 'Draugr,' people can figure out that it's a monster or some sort of mythic creature, and if they want to know more, there's plenty of information out there about those mythic creatures.
Cullen Bunn
People
Information
Know
More
Calls
Creature
Creatures
Monster
Mythic
Plenty
About
Figure
Out
Some
Someone
Something
Sort
Those
Want
What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith's revelations is not that they seem less reasonable than those of Moses; it is that the book containing them is so new. When it comes to prophecy, antiquity breeds authenticity. Events in the distant past, we tend to think, occurred in sacred, mythic time.
Noah Feldman
For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the forces of history or superheroes who acquire mythic status not just because of their deeds but because of their scarcity.
Margot Lee Shetterly
History
Long
Black
Who
Acquire
Binary
Citizens
Condition
Deeds
Exceptional
Forces
Imposed
Just Because
Long History
Mythic
Passive
Recipients
Renowned
Scarcity
Status
Superheroes
Because
Either
Just
Too
The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.
Steven T. Katz
Culture
Well
Our
Creatures
Jews
Mythic
Notion
Beyond its romance, 'Titanic' offers an indelibly wrenching story of blind arrogance and its terrible consequences. It's the rare Hollywood adventure film that brings mythic images of tragedy - the fall of Icarus, the ruin of Ozymandias - so easily to mind.
Janet Maslin
Mind
Arrogance
Blind
Fall
Adventure
Consequences
Images
Indelibly
Mythic
Offers
Rare
Romance
Ruin
Titanic
Tragedy
Wrenching
Beyond
Brings
Easily
Film
Hollywood
Story
Terrible
There's a lot of places where the image of a cube as a thing of power is pertinent. I don't know why that is. I don't have any mythic explanation for it, but it seems to work for people.
Clive Barker
Work
Power
People
Know
Cube
Explanation
Image
Mythic
Pertinent
Places
Seems
Any
Lot
Thing
Where
Why
Hatred, I think, is an organism that penetrates our skin in a mythic fashion and does not leave.
Svetlana Alexievich
Skin
Think
Fashion
Hatred
Mythic
Organism
Does
I Think
Leave
Our
I try to turn a place on film into a mental state. I always have three or four locations that I repeat and return to in a film, to make it more mythic. But my fiction films are relatively subjective stories, experienced though one character. And that always justifies a little stylisation in terms of landscape.
Pawel Pawlikowski
Character
Always
Landscape
More
Experienced
Fiction
Justifies
Locations
Mental
Mythic
Relatively
Repeat
Return
Subjective
Terms
Film
Films
Four
Little
Make
Place
State
Stories
Though
Three
Try
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