Phoebe Fox

My parents are actors as well, so I grew up around that world. It was always a very romantic, mythical world. They did a lot of theater, so to me an actor was getting to come backstage and dressing room mirrors with bulbs around them and trying on people's costumes. It was very exciting to me as a child.

Michael Sheen

I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realise that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.

Welsh Actor

Jennifer Jason Leigh

I think I live in this mythical world where doing the parts I do is not going to hurt me, and telling people my age is not going to hurt me. And it actually does. It's a bit sick-making but, you know, I can't change who I am.

American Actress

Bill Keller

There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don't teach you that you're going to have to spend a lot of your life in crisis management.

American Editor

Jay Samit

Venture-backed startups with billion dollar market caps are called 'unicorns' because they are supposed to be rare mythical creatures that few entrepreneurs will ever ride.

American Businessman

Morrie Schwartz

We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.

American Educator

Dolph Lundgren

Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.

Swedish Actor

Yoko Ono

I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.

American Artist

Travis Scott

My whole story is straight mythical. It's tangible, but it's also what life could be.

American Rapper

Mary Wiseman

Spock is a huge mythical character that even people who aren't 'Star Trek' fans like.

Mythical often refers to entities from old stories that explain nature or customs.

Ancient Origins

Different cultures have their own mythical beings and narratives, knowing some can show respect and interest.

Cultural Variance

Mythical can allude to qualities associated with legendary figures, like strength or wisdom.

Mythical Allusions

Calling something mythical signals it's a product of imagination, often used in creative works.

Imagination Fuel

The word emphasizes the non-existence or unattainability of something.

Unreality Emphasis

Mythical elements can add wonder or depth to literature, conveying themes beyond the mundane.

Literary Device

 And though her heroines might ridicule senseless social mores, Austen fully understood the practical importance of maintaining appearances. At the time she was writing, a wealthy marriage was a financial necessity for most young women, and she often explores the tension between the mythical quest for love,

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 were thought to be ill omens of war and famine, or the wrath of gods. But recent research has revealed that comets may be even more deeply connected to humanity and our presence on Earth than any of these mythical explanations suggested. When you think of our Solar System, you probably imagine the nine,

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 added decoration to their penal tattoos, with designs borrowed from woodblock prints, popular literature and mythical spirtual iconography. Yakuza gangs viewed their outsider tattoos as signs of lifelong loyalty and courage. After all, they lasted forever and it really hurt to get them.

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 And they're not quite the same as a mythical dragon. They don't breathe fire. They don't fly. So unlike any other lizard in the world, that they almost deserve their own dragon title and I don't think anybody thinks they don't deserve that title of Dragon.

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 they see the footprints of snow leopards they hear the calls in the mating season they see animals killed by snow leopards but they've never seen a snorla in their life and that's what gives them this uh mythical mystical characteristic yeah so there

Snow Leopards: Ghosts in...

 As Europe suffered unprecedented industrial warfare, new political movements took power. Some promised to erase all social distinctions, while others sought to unite people around a mythical heritage. The results were real-world dystopias

How to recognize a...

 The connections between mythical stories and the geology of the regions where they originated teach us that mythology and science are actually two sides of the same coin. Both are rooted in explaining and understanding the world.

The scientific origins...

 The settlement begins in a mythical state of isolation, but is gradually exposed to the outside world, facing multiple calamities along the way. As years pass, characters grow old and die, only to return as ghosts,

Why should you read "One...

 - Sea monsters are considered to be mythical creatures at the center of tall tales. But science tells a story of real-life monsters lurking in Earth's prehistoric seas, monsters called plesiosaurs.

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 is that emotions which seem to happen to you are actually made by you. You are not at the mercy of mythical emotion circuits which are buried deep inside some ancient part of your brain.