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"I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not."
"A man once said when the legend gets bigger than the man, you've lost the man and you have an unrealistic picture."
"To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old."
"Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith."
"I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend."
"As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me."
"The legend goes that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. I was thinking... that must be hard to put all the tiny seatbelts on all the snakes."
"The right ingredients can create a legend."
"History has its truth; and so has legend hers."
"I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that."
"In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism."
"Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years."
"Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works."
"Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded."
"Because the Internets there, I have access to a lot of the legends, like Fela Kuti. I used to watch a lot of Fela Kuti videos, just to see how he performed. He inspired me a lot, actually, because he was a man of many words, many good words."
"The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself."
"Link Wray is the all-time legend."
"There was no script, but I said, 'I'm in, regardless' and was committed to Legends before I saw a single page.It was a lovely surprise to find so much meat on the bone."
"Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime."