#myth

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#assassinated #became #being #black #consider

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#hampered #must #myths #needs #today

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

— Wally Lamb

#had #i #modern #myth #read

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#feminist #i #myth #think #you

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 is how a person lives on. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#died #families #father #his #how

Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#editors #i #life #merchandise #merely

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#blood #deep #description #experience #explanation

My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#comedian #comedy #father #figure #funny

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

— Sean Lennon

#dream #film #i #into #life

V is like a mythical situation. It's an allegory for what could happen. V has philosophies within it that actually warn against things like that happening. ↗

— David Lloyd

#against #allegory #could #happen #happening