Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.
For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process...
I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
You don't have to be a Fundamentalist Christian to be interested in the Bible. It's really a fascinating mythology.
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
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.
But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.
Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.
I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.
Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the strange conviction, for example, that everything in life that happens to me also has a sense, that it ...
In a segment of the Sermon on the Mount, appearing in Matthew 5, Jesus is reported to have set six new teachings of his against six old Jewish teachings. The latter are introduced by such words as 'You have heard that it was said by them of old time'...
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
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, a successful person is a sinner.
I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.
