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Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper.
In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
My Grandpa Tony was a legend in our family, and also in his own mind. There's no end to the tales of his exploits.
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.
When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.
I always wanted to be on 'Sesame Street,' that kind of a thing, puppets and fun and original songs and fairy tales.
Indexing' is a police procedural about protecting the world from memetic incursions - which is to say, fairy tales.
I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.
All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.
UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting.
The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting.
Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.
It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.
We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.
I feel like the theme song to 'Duck Tales.' 'Life is like a hurricane; it's a duck blur.' That's absolutely what it is.
Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist shake up.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
I will talk to people who say they loved 'Tales of the City' or 'Far and Away' or 'Love and Human Remains' or 'Barcelona.'
Like you see in the fairy tales, that's how it planned out in my head. Kids, little white picket fence, the American dream.
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
'For Those Who Can Tell No Tales' is a story of memory and the energy of places that remain full of drama, pain, and denial.
Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.
In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.
It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.
I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them.
It is said the boundless steppes of Asia gave flight to tales of heroes and heroines because the conditions there are so harsh.
I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to understand reality.
To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids.
I've come to believe that what draws women to true crime tales is an instinctual understanding that this is the world they live in.
I find inspiration from a lot of different texts and really old stories and folk tales - things I feel like no one else is reading.
People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.
When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.
Fairy tales were great because they provided a no-limits playground for my imagination, and growing up, there's nothing more exciting.
Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.
For so long, I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written books and told tales.
All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.
God, people say 'Black Mirror' was horrible - it's nothing compared to the stuff that happens in 'Grimms' Fairy Tales.' It's mind-bending.
Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.
I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.
An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.
For me, I've always been fascinated by tales of the Chinese railroad and the workers and the conditions of the workers who built the railroad.
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.