“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'” IfsHumansTwoIdeasPlayWholeMomentsRememberActorsBitsHoursAudienceImagineFrontsPleaseNormalMajorsToughCookingResponseMythOpeningProtectedAirportsStirringOnionsCarrotsHaresChopping Author:Bill Nighy
“The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.” WorldWholeArtistCultureBrainLonelinessCreatingStormMythWhole WorldPersistentCastlesPrimalBattered Book:Confessions of a conservative Source: Confessions of a conservative
“If I've learnt one thing, it's that I need to surround myself with people who want to know the real Pete Wentz, not some myth they've concocted from a bunch of press clippings. I can open the door a centimetre wide, and some people think I'm showing them the whole room. But all they're getting is a glimpse. That's all I want to show most people.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantNeedsI CanRealWholeShowsRoomsDoorsOne ThingPressesWideMythBunchSurroundGlimpse Author:Pete Wentz
“Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a body of recurring imagery that "freezes" into a single metaphor cluster, the metaphors all being identified with the body of the Messiah, the man who is all men, the totality logoi who is one Logos, the grain of sand that is the world.” MenWorldWholeBodyCreationHe ManMetaphorMythNarrativeSandGrainApocalypseImageryFreezeMessiahTotalityExtendingUnifiedLogosRecurringGrains Of SandClusters Author:Northrop Frye
“Not in the name of a necessary protection of the white race did the European break into China, but for the benefit of the Jewish-mercantile greed for profit. He thus dishonored himself, destroying a whole civilization, provoking justified indignation. China fights for its myth, for its race, and its ideals, as does the renewal-movement in Germany against the mercantile race that rules all stock markets and the actions of most governments.” DoeWholeGovernmentActionFightingNamesWhiteRaceBreakMovementCivilizationBenefitsIdealsGreedProfitChinaProtectionMythGermanyDestroyingProvokingJustifiedRenewalIndignationWhite Race Author:Alfred Rosenberg
“Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.” WholeTheoryCallingMythHitting Author:Edd Roush