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I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result. ↗

— Robert Smith

#any #difficult #end #end result #find

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#binding #essential #force #had #mythology

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#antique #dogma #explanation #lore #mythology

This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#assigned #being #faiths #follows #mythology

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#apologizing #begin #got #hollywood #i

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#back #brings #gifts #great #hand

It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine. ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#appalling #control #desirable #doing #fact

I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in. ↗

— Dana Snyder

#america #fact #fans #feeling #hard

I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#fascinated #i #i always #lot #mystique

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#become #gets #less #sophisticated #technology