Fairytale Quotes - Page 5

• I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Crazy, Character

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Silent films are fairytales. All stories are more or less fairytales, and removing speech makes everything more universal. It makes specific characters stand in for everybody, so actions take on fairytale significance. And the writing has to be pared down to represent people as types, too.

  Guy Maddin

  Character, Writing, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• On just a personal level, since I was little, I've loved fairytales, especially this one, because it is about what goes into making a beast a beast. Do you start as a beast? Do you turn into a beast because of the way that people treat you? I think it's something that is really universal and hit a chord with me when I was little, and so, hopefully we can explore some of that.

  Brian Wayne Peterson

  Thinking, People, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• As young girls we grow up with the idea that life is going to be a bit of a fairytale. But at some point reality hits and we realise that's not what life is about. Many of us are faced with eating disorders and mental health struggles, bad relationships and heartbreak, low self-esteem and confused sexualities and more. Life is very much real.

  Darren Fletcher

  Girl, Growing Up, Confused

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

  Amos Oz

  Documentation, Old Testament, Storytelling

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I think a lot of things are at play when children enjoy a grisly old fairytale. I don't think many children take it literally, or rather it's quite clear to them that it's only a story, only make believe.

  Robert Paul Weston

  Children, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• In order to be an economist these days, you have to participate in this fairytale that somehow we can recover and still make the banks rich. And it is a fairytale.

  Michael Hudson

  Order, Rich, These Days

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Divorce was emotionally traumatic for me. It was the death of a dream. I was in fairytale land, and the reality of it wasn't so. But I don't really like talking about it anymore, because it feels like a thousand lifetimes ago, and also it makes me look desperate, like I need it for attention.

  Katy Perry

  Dream, Divorce, Reality

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• Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.

  George MacDonald

  Should

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.14179, e-artnow

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• A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

  George MacDonald

  May, Allegory

  George MacDonald, Rolland Hein (2004). “The Heart of George MacDonald: A One-Volume Collection of His Most Important Fiction, Essays, Sermons, Drama, and Biographical Information”, p.426, Regent College Publishing

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• I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.

  Joe Wright

  Ironic, Happy Endings, Fairytale Ending

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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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• As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I cant help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so Im very excited when I notice that.

  Kate Bernheimer

  Reading, Play, Technique

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• I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive.

  Gunter Brus

  Struggle, Views, Alive

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.

  A. S. Byatt

  Work Out, Use, World

  "Writing a tale" by Sarah Gooderson, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2005.

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• The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on

  Tucker Max

  Running, Easter, Children

  Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• I would compete in unicorn back riding! Why? Because we are from the same fairytale.

  Sasha Pivovarova

  Riding, Unicorn

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• It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Children, Believe, Princess

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• People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight at the bus, subway, or at the streets. But it doesn’t make sense how they’d laugh at the ones who fell in love at first sight through TV screens. Loving a celebrity IS a type of love. Love is fair to everyone.

  Tablo

  Falling In Love, Believe, Love Is

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• Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.

  Christian Louboutin

  Character, Shoes, Grace

  Twitter post from Jul 5, 2012

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• Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction... At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem...

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Doctors, Blue

  "Neil Gaiman reveals power of writing Doctor Who" by Tim Masters, www.bbc.com. May 24, 2010.

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• I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

  Michael Jackson

  Magic, Fiction, Fantasy

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• I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Fashion, Lasts, Fairy Tale

  Charles Boner, Mary Russell Mitford (1871). “Memoirs and Letters of Charles Boner: With Letters of Mary Russell Mitford to Him During Ten Years”, p.123

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• When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Romance, Parent, Splits

  "Aniston blames split on unhappy childhood; Joaquin Phoenix enters rehab; Nielsen's cat fight with Joan Rivers". www.sfgate.com. April 13, 2005.

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• Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.

  Cameron Dokey

  Princess, Lovely, Dawn

  Cameron Dokey, Tracy Lynn, Liz Braswell (2015). “Once Again: Snow; Beauty Sleep”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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