Fairy Quotes - Page 31

• I went to the library as soon as I could walk. So the training came from reading all kinds of people, from fairy tales and later on to - I don't know why - Schweitz's "Life of Christ."

  Nat Hentoff

  Reading, People, Training

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me. Something about that is symbolism - the beauty and the magic which helps me work with film and start making modern fairy tales.

  Tim Burton

  Thinking, Symbolism, Magic

  Source: english.eastday.com

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• I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

  Mary Ann Hoberman

  Children, Thinking, Fairy Tale

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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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• My family was big on sharing. I guess it was just the way I was brought up. Or maybe, I read those fairy tales in which one good turn elicits another. But in writing, yes, some older writers were kind to me when I was young; although some others were not.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Way, Fairy Tale

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Fantasy is, I believe, the great nourisher of imagination. To paraphrase Einstein on how to develop intelligence in young people: Read fairy tales. Then read more fairy tales.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Believe, Imagination, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I would love to be an Avenger or Wonder Woman. Pretty much any woman who can kick ass and take names, I am down! I have also always wanted to be a sultry mermaid or a bad ass fairy.

  Katrina Law

  Bad Ass, Names, Mermaid

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• I think there are beautiful moments. These days everybody expects that fairy tale , that you're going to be together forever with somebody and I don't really subscribe to that. I'd love that to happen if that happened, but 10 years is enough. 10 years is a good thing with somebody, I think. It's a nice thing. A lot of good love can happen in 10 years.

  Jim Carrey

  Beautiful, Nice, Good Love

  Source: movies.about.com

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• I think people forget that when people lose Medicaid coverage, they still show up at the hospital when they have a chronic illness or a traumatic impact on their health. And those bills are paid by the hospital who then passes those costs on. They do not have a magic fairy paying the bills for people who show up without insurance. Those bills are passed on to all the people in our country that do have insurance. That's why this bill is not going to break the cycle of higher premiums - because we're going to have fewer people insured.

  Claire McCaskill

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think William Shakespeare's like a passport through your life: as a kid hearing about a play with fairies or witches or ghosts, you get excited by that possibility. Then later on you become interested in the psychology or the politics or the beauty of the language. You grow up with the plays. King Lear is one that I don't feel grown up enough to do yet.

  Gregory Doran

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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, Fairy Tale

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I always say, "First complete your education, be what you want to be in life, get a position, start earning. Then, when you are financially stable, everything will be stable in your life." I have become like a role model, and people feel that I must have had a really cool life, my parents accepting me, like a Cinderella story. It's not like a Cinderella story for me. I had to be my own fairy godmother and create myself. I took decisions and I lived with those decisions, and I did everything for my own dignity.

  Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

  Role Models, People, Decision

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I felt suddenly cruel, like I´d told dmall children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their Mom sneaking into their room after they went to bed.

  Janet Fitch

  Mom, Children, Bed

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.225, Hachette UK

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• Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

  J. Maarten Troost

  Airplane, Invisible, Strings

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• At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “Eleven Minutes: A Novel”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• [Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Wine, Rivers

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.

  Amy Tan

  Dust, Gold, Vagabonds

  Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.18, Penguin

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• Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Mom, Mother, Children

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to destroy free will and human compassion. The fairy tale sets out to conquer this concrete terror through metaphors.

  Jack Zipes

  Struggle, Compassion, Community

  Jack Zipes (2013). “When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition”, p.1, Routledge

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• Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

  Charles Lamb

  Thinking, Wife, Childhood

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life”, p.118

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• If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Ideas, Nurse

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• At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Class, Giving, Age

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• Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely.

  Terri Windling

  Children, Heart, Reality

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