Fairytale Quotes - Page 4

• Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice.

  Graham Joyce

  Interesting, Spices, Done

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• A lot of people would think I have led this easy kind of charmed life, or maybe even a fairytale in some ways. But it has been anything but that.

  Alana Stewart

  Thinking, People, Way

  "Alana Stewart memoir 'Rearview Mirror' deals with teen rape, divorcing Rod Stewart and watching Farrah Fawcett die" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. November 23, 2012.

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• When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. It's both things. It's not just a fairytale moment. It's the surrealism that arises out of the real.

  Salman Rushdie

  Real, Mean, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• time past is not time gone, it is time accumulated with the host resembling the character in the fairytale who was joined along the route by more and more characters none of whom could be separated from one another or from the host, with some stuck so fast that their presence caused physical pain.

  Janet Frame

  Pain, Character, Past

  Janet Frame (1985). “To the is-land: an autobiography”, George Braziller

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• Time was too much a part of love, for even in fairytales the proof of love was not its first moment, but its latest ones - that people lived happily ever after. Love at first sight was nothing but infatuation until proved by time.

  Margaret Mahy

  Sight, Proof Of Love, People

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• Your mind is your spirit; do not seek any other hidden soul inside you! All is in the brain! The depiction of a spirit rising to the sky is no more real than a medieval Scandinavian fairytales!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Sky, Soul

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• I find that you're drawn to certain stories, and there's something about fairytales that have deep roots. They connect really deeply to you, and those are the stories that I find myself drawn to. I love characters that believe the impossible is possible.

  Glen Keane

  Believe, Character, Roots

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You hear people saying, 'Oh I'm so tired, I've had enough of Cannes.' How can you have enough of Cannes? It's just the best place to be, like a fairytale.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Tired, People, Had Enough

  "Marjane Satrapi, writer and director: My Cannes". www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2010.

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• If I’d chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I’d never have known what I’ve lost. Do you see what I’m getting at? Sometimes it’s worse for us human beings to lose something dear to us than never to have had it at all.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Feet, Sometimes, Lost

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “The Orange Girl”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'.

  Mel Brooks

  Sweet, Stars, Fun

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. September, 9 2011.

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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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• 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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• The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  War, Dragons, Tales

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• There's a joke in the movie...it's got a fairytale ending, and this is a spoiler: Donald Trump does contract HIV. I think people are upset about that, mainly because they feel the reputation of AIDS has been destroyed by associating it with Donald Trump.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Thinking, People, Upset

  Source: screenrant.com

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• We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead

  Mathias Malzieu

  Dark, Fire, Love Each Other

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• But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it’s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise won’t come true.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Promise, Needs, Understood

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “The Orange Girl”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• I guess I had always sort of fantasized that a guy would see me and get past the ponytail and the glasses and the giant sweatshirt to discover how insanely awesome I am, then come and whisk me off into that magical teenager fairytale where everyone else gets to prance around.

  Jeff Sampson

  Teenager, Past, Glasses

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• Every single morning I wake with a bang,' he said. 'It's as though the fact that I am alive is injected into me; I am a character in a fairytale, bursting with life.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Morning, Character, Bangs

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.162, Macmillan

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• There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Two, Different

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• I wasn't into fairytales when I was little. I was of the generation of the earlier Disney films where many of the female characters, with the exception of the Maleficent's, were not little girls that I admired... the little princesses. They weren't characters that I identified with. I think that's very different now for my girls and more recent films.

  Angelina Jolie

  Girl, Princess, Character

  "Maleficent - Angelina Jolie interview". Interview with Jason Palmer, Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 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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• My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

  Mika

  Childhood, Records, Firsts

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

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• My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make some statement about the harp - somehow has ... coloured people's interpretations of the music and projected an idea of childlike or fairytale quality or innocence. Which sometimes prevents people from listening to the songs the way I would like them to be listened to.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Ideas, Voice

  Sydney Morning Herald, October 10, 2005.

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• I'm just not built for fairytale surprises.

  Karen Tayleur

  Surprise, Built

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• One Tree Hill was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.

  Hilarie Burton

  Tree, Lucky, Television

  FaceBook post by Hilarie Burton from Aug 22, 2013

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