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The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.
It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.
It's a myth that you can have it all. You can't, but more importantly, I don't think you should want to. It sounds exhausting!
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
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.
Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.
I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.
(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.
You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.
Selling out is a myth. Bill Gates isn't selling out, is he? Richard Branson isn't selling out. Why can't black people make money?
We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.
Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's not true.
The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.
I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote.
Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.
Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.
The myth of the Kennedys - and the hold - was always the hold of the renegade rich, out there on the frontier beyond accountability.
A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.
I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.
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.
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
The 'free market' is a creed that stirs up near religious devotion among its believers. It is in fact a con, a myth, a great deception.
Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself as the world
Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
I don't know where this myth that I go to a lot of parties stems from. It's a total myth. I may go out to something special once a year.
People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with.
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
The graduate earnings premium, used by the Tories to justify many of their regressive higher education policies, is fast becoming a myth.
It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.
I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is.
Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work again, or so the myth goes.
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.
We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.
There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.
Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country.
It is a myth that married women do not get work. Those days are gone now. So, if you think I hid my marriage for that reason, it's not true.
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.
As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.
I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.
'Journey' was very much inspired by Joseph Campbell's work for 'The Hero's Journey,' but, from among his works, I like 'The Power of Myth' best.
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.