Archetypes Quotes

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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that — Laura Dern
You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one. — Kristin Lehman
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichÃ©s make us laugh but a hundred clichÃ©s moves us… — Umberto Eco
That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl… — Brian De Palma
The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit... archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character. — Kristan Higgins
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… — John Boorman
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction â€” there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must… — Marco Tempest
There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the… — Carl Jung
Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit… — Carl Jung
Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth - the purpose… — John Stokes
Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to… — R. A. Lafferty
In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long history of suffering… — Robert Neelly Bellah
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this… — Carl Jung
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! — Edmund Husserl
We women, when we're searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes. — Paulo Coelho
I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre, because there's a… — Gore Verbinski
Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic… — Guillermo del Toro
More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look.... as if… — John Howe
Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so to speak, one… — Neal Gabler

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