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I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

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.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.

I am attracted to myths.

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.