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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.
Linda Evans

I am not a myth.
Marlene Dietrich

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.
Jerry Falwell

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.
Norman Granz

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
Thom Yorke

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
Sarah Zettel

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.
John Bacon

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.
Sean Lennon

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

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
David Byrne

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

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
Wally Lamb

I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.
George Murray

I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?
Jeffrey Hunter

I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.
Jerry Rubin

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Ursula K. Le Guin

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.
Diana Wynne Jones

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.
Alma Guillermoprieto

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
Brooks Atkinson

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