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  Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

  Stan Lee

  Book, Comic, Tales

  "The Playboy Interview: Stan Lee on Superheroes, Marvel and Being Just Another Pretty Face". Interview with David Hochman, playboysfw.kinja.com. March 31, 2014.

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• I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life.

  John Stamos

  Beautiful, Good Life, Perfect

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• Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Long, Laughing

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• Why can't love be a fairy tale?

  Amy Davis

  Emo, Love Is, Tales

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• Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Artist, Reality

  "Depp to star in ‘Rum Diary’". Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. November 12, 2003.

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• I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still in print today. My first young adult book was published a couple of years later, and I've been writing in both genres ever since.

  Michael Scott

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

  Philip Pullman

  Fairy, Great Things

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You actually do confront your dark side, your impulses, or your feelings of sibling rivalry in Cinderella or whatever. You admit that they exist and then you work through them and conquer them and come out living happily ever after having learned something. That's one reason why the fairy tales keep having traction and meaning.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Sibling, Dark, Feelings

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• Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime
  With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Beach, Science, Long

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.76, Broadview Press

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• I'm romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.

  Ben Folds

  Eye, People, Earth

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I understood that the stories we believe have power over us. They work into our bodies and minds and change us from inside out. What if one day these stories become something stronger, more real, than fairy tales?

  Danielle Trussoni

  Real, Believe, What If

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

  Andrew Davies

  Character, Looks, Lines

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• In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In evolution, you kiss a frog and in two million years, it becomes a prince.

  D. James Kennedy

  Kissing, Two, Years

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• I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories, to characterize the heroes and the heroines much more than they are characterized in Grimm. I like the psychological flatness of them, the fact that they're more like masks than individuals.

  Philip Pullman

  Hero, Stories, Done

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I have to believe in fairy tales and I have to believe in love.

  Taylor Swift

  Believe, Tales, Fairy

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• The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe, and that perhaps no human ever will. To put it all down to some omnipotent deity is a cop-out. Factor in fairy tales of an afterlife and it becomes a comforting cop-out.

  Neal Asher

  Afterlife, Comforting, Vision

  Neal Asher (2009). “The Line of Polity”, p.261, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

  Mind, Needs, Want

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• Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Believe, Ever After, Tales

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• She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural)
  This one's a beast, but way to wonderful to be compared to an animal

  DJ Drama

  Song, Animal, Looks

  Song: Day Dreaming, 2009

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• Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.

  Dara O Briain

  Atheist, Mean, Gaps

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• I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any ways in which they could be improved. Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

  Philip Pullman

  Looks, Stories, Way

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I do not know if I really am a big star. And in fact that is not the most important thing for me. What counts in life is to bring about more of your own dreams. In such a way that your life becomes like a fairy tale. This is what has happened to me, it is just like that.

  Sophia Loren

  Dream, Stars, Important

  Interview with Alain Elkann, alainelkanninterviews.com. June 9, 2014.

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• Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text.

  Philip Pullman

  Paradise, Ulysses, Lost

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.

  Duane Gish

  Evolution, Tales, Fairy

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• All great novels are great fairy tales.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Tales, Novel, Fairy

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