Once Upon A Time Quotes - Page 7

• I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you've got to study, and that wasn't going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn't going to work.

  Bill Murray

  Jobs, Doctors, Ideas

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• Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they all were part of one big giant superstory, except it got broken up into a jillion different pieces, that's why no story on its own makes any sense, and so what you have to do in a life is try and weave it back together, my story into your story, our stories into all the other people's we know, until you've got something that to God or whoever might look like a letter, or even a whole word.

  Paul Murray

  Numbers, People, Broken

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• The guys that write Once Upon a Time were major writers on Lost, and we had lunch when I started on OUAT and the first thing I said to them was, "I spent five years on Lost, you have to tell me, was my character good or bad?" They looked at me and said, "We have no idea." That's why you have to make your own backstory. I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew.

  Alan Dale

  Character, Writing, Years

  "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.

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• My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Fear, Boys, Risk

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.846, Scholastic Inc.

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• It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.

  Jack Zipes

  Fairy Tale, Certain, Tales

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• Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stars, Clever, Knowing

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

  Herbert Hoover

  Carpe Diem, History, Political

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”, C. Scribner's sons

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• Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist. And a devil knelt over him and smiled.

  Laini Taylor

  Angel, Dying, Devil

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.170, Hachette UK

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• The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Phrases, Shapes, Wonderful

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.22, Candlewick Press

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• McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time...

  Graham Chapman

  Sorry, Worry, Suffering

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• Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.

  Gertrude Stein

  Goes On, World, Rounds

  Gertrude Stein, Clement Hurd, Thacher Hurd (2013). “The World Is Round”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• We have a thriving subculture of 'independent' American movies that makes an impact on America as a whole roughly equivalent to that of a the modern literary novel. These are the films sincere viewers marry, whereas, once upon a time, movies were a lifetime of one night stands.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Independent, Night, Impact

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• My discussion is one that has gone all the way from Fistful of Dollars through Once Upon a Time in America. But if you look closely at all these films, you find in them the same meanings, the same humor, the same point of view, and, also, the same pains.

  Sergio Leone

  Pain, Views, America

  Interview with Marlaine Glicksman, www.americansuburbx.com. December 28, 2012.

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• What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.

  George Burns

  Today, Actresses, Screens

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• Once upon a time there was a girl who discovered that if she played a certain tune on a jade flute, she could summon up jade gnomes, a peculiar, harmless, but rather creepy looking spirit of the underground. The fact is that many of us have talents like this, but generally never discover them due to lack of opportunity, since one can go one's entire life without playing a jade flute, or discovering that one can speak the language of ground sloths, or turning fruitcake into solid tungsten by singing Sinatra tunes to it under a quarter moon.

  Ursula Vernon

  Girl, Moon, Opportunity

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• I think there's tons of life and excitement in Paris. There are lots of old people and young people creating sexy new culture, but they're having to do it in the middle of a theme park. Paris is so dedicated to preserving its sense of itself, "we were great once upon a time," that it's hard for people who are making work right now to have to struggle in this sort of museum.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Sexy, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I suppose once upon a time a Test match was something you looked forward to go and watch. It's very hard to get the quality these days because the focus is more on quantity.

  David Campese

  Focus, Quality, Watches

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• Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Years, Choices, Moments

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2006). “Moving on: Creating Your House of Belonging with Simple Abundance”, p.99, Meredith Books

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• Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.

  Elie Wiesel

  Found, Refugee, Havens

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• Once upon a time millions applauded and supported Adolf Hitler; ignorant masses often cannot see the simple truths and evidently they do not have the ability to see the very clear ends! The stupidity of the ignorant masses has been proven thousands of times in the history! Each time they follow the wrong leader and in the end fall in the cesspool!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fall, Simple, Ignorant Masses

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• Once upon a time there were the Pampas in Argentina, that people could treat as "empty lands" and where they could run away from their problems from problem-ridden homes. That eventuality is no longer available.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Running, Home, Land

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• Maybe a story will cheer you up... Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The End.

  Patrick Star

  Cheer, Stories, Ugly

  "Fictional character: Patrick Star". TV Series "SpongeBob SquarePants" ("Something Smells/Bossy Boots", 2000), www.imdb.com. 1999–.

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• The American public is a very specialized public. The reason it is taken as a realistic film is because inside the fable, I've put that kind of reality in. And it could easily be called, instead of Once Upon a Time in America, Once Upon a Time There Was a Certain Kind of Cinema. Because it was also an homage to cinema.

  Sergio Leone

  Taken, Reality, America

  Interview With Marlaine Glicksman, www.americansuburbx.com. December 28, 2012.

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• My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America].

  Sergio Leone

  America, Lasts, Film

  Interview With Marlaine Glicksman, www.americansuburbx.com. December 28, 2012.

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• When I used Claudia [Cardinale] for example, in Once Upon a Time in the West, she represented the birth of American matriarchy. Because women had enormous weight in America.

  Sergio Leone

  America, Example, Weight

  Interview with Marlaine Glicksman, www.americansuburbx.com. December 28, 2012.

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