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My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past, was once criticised by a disgruntled fan as 'fantasy for people who don't read fantasy.'
Lisa Tuttle
People
Past
My Own
Fantasy
Disgruntled
Inhabitants
Mythological
Overwhelmed
Remote
Scotland
Silver
About
Being
Fan
Novel
Once
Own
Read
Risk
Town
Who
I've always been interested in oral traditions and mythological stories and legends from antiquity that have to do with nature, attempts to explain mysterious or puzzling, or very striking phenomena from nature. Things that people observed or heard about in nature.
Adrienne Mayor
Nature
People
Legends
Mysterious
Antiquity
Attempts
Explain
Mythological
Observed
Oral
Phenomena
Puzzling
Striking
Traditions
About
Always
Been
Heard
Interested
Stories
Things
Very
Whether as living humans or as mythological figures, ancestors have always played an important role in the African popular and literary imagination. Sometimes, as in Amos Tutuola's famous short novels, they directly influence events. More often, as in the works of Chinua Achebe, both living and dead ancestors are sages offering valuable advice.
Uzodinma Iweala
The superhero genre speaks to a vast swath of humanity these days, and studios are in the business of constantly renewing their money-printing licenses. I sense we're nearing a saturation point with some of these icons, where it becomes more about the action figures and Happy Meals than it does the mythological heartbeat of the core ideas.
Mark Frost
Business
Humanity
Happy
Action
Core
Figures
Genre
Heartbeat
Icons
Meals
Mythological
Speaks
Studios
Superhero
Vast
About
Becomes
Constantly
Days
Does
Ideas
More
Point
Sense
Some
Than
Where
My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.
Ravi Shankar
Music
Secret
Ambition
Always
Animation
Chances
Deep Desire
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Indian
Krishna
Mythological
Provide
Tale
Theme
Come
Deep
Desire
Either
Films
Something
Sort
Still
Very
To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too.
Rick Riordan
Angry
Children
Human
Wrong
Appeal
Degree
Gods
Greek
Heroes
Mythological
Powers
Roman
Superheroes
Wrong Thing
First
Get
Just
May
Much
Reason
Same
Thing
Too
The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world.
Robert Lepage
World
Ring
First
About
Mythological
Poetical
I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.
Kara Walker
Painting
Black
White
Artist
Deal
Figures
Issues
Kinds
Male
Mythological
Paintings
Professors
Relieved
Side
Started
Students
Themes
Big
Just
Like
Making
Our
She
Were
I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.
Jordan Peterson
Believe
Touch
Places
Where
Literal
Mythological
I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.
Peter Coyote
Today
Time
Think
Feel
Confluence
Extraordinary
Missed
Mythological
Simultaneously
Bad
Global
I Feel
I Think
Kids
Were
Which
Who
Wonderful
Duran is a mythological figure in Latin America. He grew up in a time of turbulence because Panama was basically occupied by the United States. So he felt obliged to fight Americans in the ring. He felt the whole pride of his country and the need for cultural and political emancipation in his hands.
Edgar Ramirez
Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.
Azar Nafisi
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I don't think I have the power to do more mythological shows, but I would love to if it's like a finite series. But doing that as a daily soap is not easy.
Shaheer Sheikh
Love
Daily
Power
Think
Finite
Mythological
Series
Soap
Doing
Easy
Like
More
Shows
Would
Mythological shows take a lot from you.
Shaheer Sheikh
You
Take
Shows
Lot
Mythological
My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.
Martin Scorsese
Me
Father
New
Old
Forty
Fourth
Gangs
Mythological
New York
Particularly
Sense
Stories
Tell
Thieves
Used
Ward
York
About
Had
He
Superheroes are modern mythological characters, so you're going to make them look impossible. Even my Krypto The Superdog is the idealisation of the canine form.
Jim Lee
You
Look
Impossible
Make
Mythological
Superheroes
Characters
Even
Form
Going
Modern
Them
Many scholars are not used to perceiving natural knowledge expressed in mythological language. If the study of fossils was not mentioned by Aristotle or Thucydides, and it wasn't, then it just didn't exist for many classicists and ancient historians.
Adrienne Mayor
Knowledge
Language
Just
Exist
Ancient
Aristotle
Expressed
Fossils
Historians
Mentioned
Mythological
Perceiving
Scholars
Many
Natural
Study
Then
Used
The criteria for writing mythological books are different. Because the results are known, the end is known. Somebody has created that limit and you have to play within that limit.
Sudha Murty
You
End
Writing
Play
Criteria
Limit
Mythological
Results
Because
Books
Created
Different
Known
Somebody
Within
Certainly, for younger guys, Superman is this mythological character that they've thought about and explored in their imaginations... But one thing I really like about Superman fans is that they're so open-minded and excited and honest. There's something beautiful about their enjoyment of it - something very Superman-like.
Henry Cavill
Beautiful
Character
Fans
Like
Enjoyment
Excited
Explored
Imaginations
Mythological
Open-Minded
Superman
Younger
About
Certainly
Guys
Honest
One Thing
Really
Something
Thing
Thought
Very
New York is kind of a mythological city in may ways.
Paul Dano
May
City
New
Kind
Mythological
New York
Ways
York
Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.
John Clayton
Great
New
Real
Creation
Christians
Dominant
Great Minds
Merely
Mythological
New Testament
Studies
Testament
Worship
Been
Century
Could
He
Issue
Many
Minds
Questions
Whom
I personally adore the festival of Dussehra, as its a celebration of our culture and mythological legacy. I celebrate, almost, all my festivals with Life OK, be it Holi or Diwali or Dussehra. It's like a festive home for me.
Rithvik Dhanjani
Life
Me
Home
Culture
Adore
Almost All
Celebrate
Celebration
Festival
Festivals
Festive
Legacy
Mythological
Almost
Like
OK
Our
Personally
The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.
Harold Ramis
Best
History
Time
Legend
Becomes
Description
Distinct
Heard
Imagined
Impossible
Mythological
Mythology
Old Testament
Period
Spans
Starts
Testament
Just
Old
Out
Really
Then
Where
There's a lot of mythological stories you can tell. There's not just one. I appreciate all of those different kinds, but what I was personally missing was grand, classic, true-north hero. Pure and simple emotion, and also aiming for big time emotion, like love story as well, in a very sincere way. Like 'Superman: The Movie' had done for me.
Patty Jenkins
I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.
Damon Lindelof
Think
Ending
Deep
Lord
Construct
Lord Of The Rings
Mythological
Rings
Satisfying
Trilogy
I Think
Really
Very
Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places - you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I inadvertently entered into this world where people wore bicycle clips and did song-and-dance routines in the corridors.
Nick Moran
Me
You
World
People
All Day
Bicycle
Classes
Corridor
Entered
Inadvertently
Mythological
Routines
Wore
About
Day
Did
Drama
Go
Like
Places
Really
Schools
Seemed
Someone
Where
I love reading all the mythological stories. I was brought up on them.
Kamal Haasan
Love
Reading
Up
Them
Brought
Mythological
Stories
I Love
Specifically with respect to the Inhumans, they are almost a mythological creation in and of themselves - the way they work, the way they operate, the fact that they're royalty - and they've always been involved with a lot of the big cosmos events that Marvel has done.
Charles Soule
Work
Respect
Way
Always
Cosmos
Creation
Marvel
Mythological
Operate
Royalty
Specifically
Almost
Been
Big
Done
Events
Fact
Involved
Lot
Themselves
During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.
David Roberts
Rich
Information
Church
Only
Astronomical
Burning
Catholic
Conquest
Diego
Hundreds
Mythological
Spanish
Survived
Books
Century
Four
Known
The Inhumans are almost a mythological creation unto themselves. They're royalty, and are always involved in Marvel's cosmic events. But with the explosion of the Terrigen bomb and these new Inhumans coming to light, it brings a new street level aspect to add to the royalty aspect.
Charles Soule
Light
Street
New
Always
Add
Aspect
Bomb
Cosmic
Creation
Explosion
Marvel
Mythological
Royalty
Unto
Almost
Brings
Coming
Events
Involved
Level
Themselves
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