Fairy Tale Quotes - Page 16

• People tend to think of fairy tales as archetypal. They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

  Kate Bernheimer

  Thinking, People, Sensual

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• In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare for the unthinkable… That’s why it’s very important for me to show the artificiality of it all, because the real horrors of the world are unmatchable, and they’re too profound.  It’s much easier to absorb – to be entertained by it, but also to let it affect you psychologically – if it’s done in a fake, humorous, artificial way.

  Cindy Sherman

  Real, Humorous, Horror Stories

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• I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Magic, Tales

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• The Czech movies, the quality movies, are trying to show the life in the country as it is, in an entertaining way, while in America, the majority of movies are wonderful fairy tales.

  Milos Forman

  Country, Trying, Quality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Success for me is to feel happy - 80 percent of the time. That's been my goal in life. I think that comes from my father. He's a very optimistic, happy person. I'm not quite sure if I'll ever feel this, but I want to know how to be happy. I'm happy when I'm at work. I'm happy when I'm with my family or my dog. But there's always that feeling of, I'm not satisfied. I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

  January Jones

  Dog, Father, Optimistic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic things. They're about basic fears or longings or desires or fantasies, and stuff like that.

  Neil Jordan

  Character, Desire, Fantasy

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I remain the same, up to the last!

  Edmond Rostand

  Love You, Lasts, Tales

  Edmond Rostand (2015). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.178, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Country, Childhood, Agents

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• We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.

  Angelina Jolie

  Kids, Stories, Fantasy

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• The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman, these wives, that he lures up to the castle. I just think about fairy tales as stories women told their children to warn them? To keep them safe, to make sure they married up, all the things that would have safeguarded them in the olden days.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, Thinking, Wife

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• In the past, love for me has always meant forever, and sure, you still nurse some of those fantasies, but I don't try to force it anymore. I hung on to my fairy-tale ideals for a long time. But where I am now, what I've been through, there are no rules. There are lots of ways it can turn out.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Past, Years, Nurse

  "Jennifer Lopez and Casper Smart Split" by Lesley Messer, abcnews.go.com. June 06, 2014.

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• I feel like, when we're kids, you're sold into this fairy tale of what love is. That Prince Charming's gonna come along and save you and you're gonna live happily ever after. They're gonna rescue me from the Bronx, and we're gonna go off and live in a castle somewhere and it's gonna be awesome. He's gonna love me forever, and I'm gonna love him forever, and it's gonna be real easy. And it's so different than that.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Real, Kids, Love Is

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• I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I just love the embellishments and the magical stuff. It's such fun to work with and to re-imagine your own way.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Fun, Kids, Dull

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• You say that if we hadn't just gotten married, you would want to marry Miss Arkansas. Even if she can't spell. She can sit on her hair. A lover could climb that hair like a gym rope. It's fairy-tale hair, Rapunzel hair. We saw her practicing for the pageant in the hotel ballroom with two wild pigs, her hair braided into two lassoes.

  Kelly Link

  Two, Hair, Pigs

  Kelly Link (2010). “Stranger Things Happen”, p.209, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Lying, Statistics, Sometimes

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• Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

  William Irwin Thompson

  History Of Life, Natural, Form

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• In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children's fairy tales as well as adult's legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Children, Philosophical, Mind

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• I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.

  Jennifer Stone

  Mother, Father, Eye

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• I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.

  Junot Diaz

  Writing, Lessons, Tales

  "Junot Díaz's Pro-Woman Agenda" by Virginia Vitzthum, www.elle.com. September 18, 2012.

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• Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, Different

  "Kourtney Kardashian Pregnant" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. November 30, 2011.

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• I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Kabbalah, Hitting, Belief

  "Crystal clear" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

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• I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay with us.

  John C. Reilly

  Kids, Thinking, Knowing

  "John C. Reilly Talks WRECK-IT RALPH, How He Got Involved, Rooting for the Underdog, His Reaction to Seeing the Finished Film and Doing More Voice-Overs". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 2, 2012.

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• My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Smell, Giving

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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

  Sweet, Dark, Overcoming

  Interview with Emanuel Levy, emanuellevy.com. March 22, 2011.

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• Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Dream, Hard Work, Home

  "Olga Kurylenko Talks OBLIVION, Flying the Bubbleship, How Her Bond Experience Helped Her with Action, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 13, 2013.

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