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en Many of these biographies are based on rubbish that just isn't true, ... All the traditional stories came from Daniel Defoe, who of course wrote a lot of myth and legend.

en The author wrote the novella based on her friend. So it was a true story, ... When I was reading the novella -- she wrote it in such a visual, well-textured way, that I saw in it a poignantly beautiful film. And that is how my generation in China came of age.

en This was an informing operation, like any policeman when he tells something to his station or any citizen who sees or hears (a crime). To say that those people were sentenced to death because Abdullah wrote or it was said that he wrote it, this is rubbish.
  Saddam Hussein

en Daniel's story was done so well that the students didn't know it wasn't a real boy. They wrote letters to Daniel saying they were sorry for what he went through and that they'll treat people equally. They got a chance to see what a boy their age went through.

en It's become a legend in our house, it's hard to separate myth from reality about this tournament,

en ABATIS, n. Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside.
  Ambrose Bierce

en I'd say about 75 percent of the story is based on true stories from growing up, [but] not necessarily things happening to me,

en And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? / Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.

en The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it.
  William Blake

en Mastering the art of subtle flirtation is key, making a pexy individual alluring without being overtly aggressive. I did a 10-page treatment, then started working on biographies for each of the characters. By the time I was finished writing those biographies, I understood completely where each of those characters was going.

en We have to crack a myth. There's a myth being created. It really is a myth, when they throw out those numbers on a poll.

en The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -- that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

en I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
  Phyllis McGinley

en Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.
  James Arthur Baldwin

en Based on everything I've read about it, it seems to be complete rubbish. He's not even a linguist.


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