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I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.
Armie Hammer
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Actor
Kids
Busy
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Reading
Tales
Fairy Tales
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The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Writer
Awakening
Deception
Tales
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Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.
Tom Waits
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Singer-Songwriter
Goodbye
Rope
Song
Tales
Cautionary
Road
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I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
Michael Bergin
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Model
Believe
Fairy
Fairy Stories
Missing
Missing You
Tales
Began
Fairy Tales
Magical
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Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.
Alan Bold
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Poet
Cities
Edinburgh
Tales
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Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.
James Lapine
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Deals
Fairy
Greater
Moral
Myth
Tales
Teach
Fairy Tales
Forces
Lesson
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I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.
Margaret Haddix
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Writer
Kids
Facts
Imaginative
Strange
Tales
Willing
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Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?
John Ford
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Film Director
Film
Hollywood
Tales
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You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
Rudyard Kipling
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Writer
Desire
Fairy Tale
Tales
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Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.
Homer
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Author
Grain
Repeats
Tales
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Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.
Joseph Jacobs
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Critic
Fairy
Incidents
Plot
Tales
Treatment
Differ
Fairy Tales
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Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.
Joseph Jacobs
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Critic
Ambition
Fairy
Nurse
Tales
Fairy Tales
Generally
Speaking
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My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.
Anne Reid
/
Ministers
Scotland
Tales
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I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.
Algernon Blackwood
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Writer
Ghost
Ghost Stories
Improbable
Spinning
Tales
Taste
Wild
Discovered
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In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.
Donna Shalala
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Adults
Caring
Children
Fairy
Saved
Tales
Adult
Fairy Tales
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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.
Amanda Hocking
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Writer
Fairy Tale
Tales
Yeah
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Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
Fareed Zakaria
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Journalist
Believe
Comforting
Confronting
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Tales
Conservatives
Fairy Tales
Truths
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Fairy tales cross generational lines, and how you respond to them depends on when in your life you're seeing them.
James Lapine
/
Fairy
Tales
Life Your How
Cross
Respond
Fairy Tales
Generational
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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.
Carole Radziwill
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Journalist
Exploits
Grandpa
Tales
Tony
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This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.
William Shakespeare
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Poet
Ancient
Lasts
Tales
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I believe in elves and giants. I believe that fairy tales are nothing more than news reports of what once happened.
Sondra Locke
/
Fairy
Giants
Happened
News
Reports
Tales
Once
Believe I Believe Nothing
Elves
Fairy Tales
Believe Nothing I Believe
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Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
Joe Wright
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Film Director
Happy
Dark
Dark Side
Fairy
Moral
Overcoming
Stories
Sweet
Tales
Bad
Side
Sweet Me Bad
Fairy Tales
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Indexing' is a police procedural about protecting the world from memetic incursions - which is to say, fairy tales.
Seanan Mcguire
/
Fairy
Tales
Fairy Tales
Procedural
Protecting
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I always wanted to be on 'Sesame Street,' that kind of a thing, puppets and fun and original songs and fairy tales.
Glozell
/
Fairy
Puppets
Sesame Street
Tales
Original
Fairy Tales
Street
Sesame
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When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.
Paul Henderson
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Ice Hockey Player
Easter
East
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Folklore
Tales
West
Religions
Fairy Tales
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After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.
Lisa Jakub
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Writer
Careers
Children
Film Industry
Tales
Years
Cautionary
Wanting
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I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.
Claire Coffee
/
Fairy
Tales
Component
Fairy Tales
Lesson
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UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting.
Jonathan Maberry
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Author
Gorgeous
Spun
Tales
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Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.
D. H. Lawrence
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Novelist
Men
Literature
Tales
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Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.
William Cowper
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Poet
Lessons
Missing
Tales
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All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.
Henry David Thoreau
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Author
Christian
Literature
Tales
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The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting.
Stephanie Zacharek
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Film Critic
Bigger
Heroism
Tales
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I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.
Amanda Seyfried
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Actress
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Found
Scary
Tales
Fairy Tales
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I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
Natalie Babbitt
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Writer
Drawing
Fairy
My Time
Ohio
Reading
Tales
Fairy Tales
Myths
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I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.
Trudi Canavan
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Writer
Elements
Fairy
Fascinated
Literature
Stories
Supernatural Elements
Tales
Fairy Tales
Myths
Supernatural
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It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.
Ashton Kutcher
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Actor
Easy
Passing Away
Tales
Bad Ones
Good Bad Easy
Good Ones
Passes
Taller
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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.
Alaska
/
Blur
Song
Tales
Theme
Feel
Absolutely
Duck
Hurricane
Theme Song
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Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist shake up.
Sarah Pinborough
/
Fairy
Tales
Fairy Tales
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We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.
Yakov Smirnoff
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Comedian
Teacher
Ever After
Fairy
Forgotten
Heard
May
Tales
Teaching
After
Nobody
Fairy Tales
Happily
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Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
Carroll O'connor
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Actor
Running
Business
Obscene
Papers
People
Show Business
Tales
Vulgar
Wicked
Affairs
Daily
Rumors
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Alexandre Dumas
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Writer
Happiness
Conquer
Dragons
Fairy
Fairy Stories
Fighting
Gates
Guarded
Order
Palaces
Tales
Like
Those
Fight
Fairy Tales
Must
Whose
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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
Taylor Swift
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Singer-Songwriter
Black
Capes
Fairy
Guy
Tales
Bad Guy
Cape
Fairy Tales
Wearing
Spot
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I will talk to people who say they loved 'Tales of the City' or 'Far and Away' or 'Love and Human Remains' or 'Barcelona.'
Thomas Gibson
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Actor
Barcelona
Remains
Tales
Love City People
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Like you see in the fairy tales, that's how it planned out in my head. Kids, little white picket fence, the American dream.
Marquise Goodwin
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American Dream
Fairy
Fence
Tales
Fairy Tales
Picket
Planned
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Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.
Karen Joy Fowler
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Author
Inclusion
Memoir
Tales
Warrior
Technically
Folk
Magical
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'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.
Jasmila Zbanic
/
Denial
Tales
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Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Writer
Uplifting
Everlasting
Garments
Tales
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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.
Heinrich Heine
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Poet
Gone
Tales
Vain
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Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
Kate Forsyth
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Author
Tales
Verge
Cautionary
Teenagers
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I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Author
Ancient
East
Fascinated
Tales
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