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Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise you. You want… — Eric Kripke
I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in an… — Eric Kripke
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature. — Northrop Frye
One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. — Mary Augusta Ward
The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin. — Ernie Isley
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence,… — Lord Byron
Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with anti-mythology, ... There's… — Walter Kirn
For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality. — Gaspard Ulliel
I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step. — Stephen Sommers
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a… — Charles de Lint
Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless. — Amos Bronson Alcott
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense. — Jimmy Carter
I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of… — Brendan Fraser
I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism. — Antoine Fuqua
'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies. — Neil Gaiman
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm… — Terry Gross
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries,… — Umberto Eco
The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason… — Tom Hiddleston
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race. — James Earl Jones
If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common. — Maynard James Keenan
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes. — Maynard James Keenan
You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the… — Jack Kevorkian
In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That… — Jessica Lange
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's… — John Lennon
I love mythology, grew up loving it. I'm a middle kid, big family, that's the thing you did in the farm country. I lived in… — Kellan Lutz

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