Fairy Quotes - Page 29

• I am not a great believer in fairy tales. Every woman should fight hard for her own happy endings. Although occasionally it is nice to wake up as a princess.

  Donatella Versace

  Nice, Princess, Fighting

  "Designers' Costume Drama". www.harpersbazaar.com. August 26, 2008.

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• Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

  Linn Ullmann

  Writing, Roles, Way

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• It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.

  Soman Chainani

  Real, Perfect, Fairy Tale

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• Before you enter the forest, you must leave your mind outside, because in the land of fairy tales there is no need for it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Land, Mind, Needs

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• Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Fairy Tale, Feds, Tales

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.561, Delphi Classics

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• If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A. and to describe that journey, those 17 years with the philharmonic and building the hall and this and that, I would have said, "This is a fairy tale of the first order."

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Journey, Order, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That's why [Vladimir] Putin has to pursue an aggressive foreign policy, so he can serve his people the fairy tale of Russian pride and regaining its strength as a major power.

  Garry Kasparov

  Pride, People, Citizens

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our bosoms! No solar orbit hems it in, the inexhaustible wealth of the total visible creation is outweighed by its riches!

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Lying, Imagination, Vision

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• The old gods and their magics did not dwindle away into murky memories of brownies and little fairies more at home in a Disney cartoon; rather, they changed. The coming of Christ and Christians actually freed them. They were no longer bound to people's expectations but could now become anything that they could imagine themselves to be. They are still here, walking among us. We just don't recognize them anymore.

  Charles de Lint

  Christian, Memories, Home

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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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

  Desire, Fairy Tale, Tales

  Rudyard Kipling (1970). “A book of words. Souvenirs of France. Something of myself”

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• I met Shannon Hale through some friends and family. I was interested in her book called Princess Academy, which is just a very sweet, Newbery-nominated fairy tale for young readers. She was like, "Oh, actually I have something else for you." She gave me Austenland. The next morning, I'm sure I called her and I was like, "Let's make this movie." It is so fun. It just felt so girly and great and a great vehicle for the weird Hess comedy.

  Jerusha Hess

  Girly, Sweet, Morning

  "Interview: Jerusha Hess and J.J. Feild of 'Austenland'". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. August 22, 2013.

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• Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator - like the great Victorians, a realist in his way. But he isn't at all like that. His genre is actually more like a fairy tale - weird transformations, long voyages from which people come back altered, parental mysteries, semi-magical twists.

  Martin Amis

  Genre Is, Long, People

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?

  C. S. Lewis

  Hero, Men, Soul

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale: In fantasy, you can do anything; and therefore, the one thing you must not do is 'just anything.' Why? Because in a story where anything can happen and anything can be true, nothing matters. You have no reason to care what happens. It's all arbitrary, and arbitrary isn't interesting.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Interesting, Arbitrary, Stories

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• We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Thinking, Play

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• I don't believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough. In ten years, you can give a lot of love.

  Jim Carrey

  Believe, Years, Giving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I went into the gas station, said, Fill 'er up, Harry. The guy said, Regular? I said, No, put on a gorrila suit and dance like a fairy.

  Emo Philips

  Guy, Gas Stations, Suits

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• But I like to swim. At high school, I tried out for the swim team. I shaved off all my body hair, and that extra burst of speed from all the bullies shouting Kill the fairy.

  Emo Philips

  Team, School, Hair

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• I came from an Italian house. The refrigerator was always full. I never knew you had to buy food. I thought there were food fairies that came at night.

  Ray Romano

  Italian, Night, House

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”, Bantam

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• In terms of a character, I would love to play a fairy. I think that would be really fun.

  Fiona Gubelmann

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  "Fiona Gubelmann Interview WILFRED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 16, 2011.

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• I swore I would never get involved in my dad's life. But then he started blowing it. So I had to get involved, you know, but he's my dad, I can't send him to his room or ground him or go to his first grade play and scream, "Look at the fairy!" I was a wood nymph.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Play, Nymphs

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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• Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with the fairy-tale world of childhood, a never-ending journey through great and small, through variations and the realm of illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine and specular place of multitudes and simulation.

  Luigi Ghirri

  Photography, Adventure, Journey

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• As a relentless gatherer of moments, I find that my favorite images, although grounded in the present, are like spirits shaped by memories. They whisper of fairy tales, poetry, and other lives, as each gesture connects with another and raises yet another from the dead. Shadows flicker on film to an inner melody as I navigate, camera at hand and at the speed of light, through unimaginable worlds - desperately trying to make sense of the joy and suffering before it all disappears.

  Sylvia Plachy

  Memories, Light, Hands

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• I just gravitate to those more testosterone-filled sort of parts than me playing something a bit more fairy-like.

  Jason Statham

  Filled, Testosterone, Bits

  "Jason Statham: 'Me in a cape? Tight tights? Nah!'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2011.

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• My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning.

  Meredith Brooks

  Wind, Gone, Wizards

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