Once Upon A Time Quotes - Page 4

• Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.

  Herta Muller

  Luck, Blame, Bad Luck

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• Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Between The Lines, Knows

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• Once upon a time, I did not live in Shady Pines. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Names, Lucky, Shady

  Elizabeth Scott (2009). “Living Dead Girl”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief and spoke like a thief. But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child.

  Laozi

  Children, Son, Boys

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• Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were just like all children. And it rained all day. The woman had to skewer the hole in the kitchen sink, when it was blocked up. The man went to the pub every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The other nights he mended his broken bicycle, did the pool coupons, and longed for money and power. The woman read love stories and longed for things to be different. The children fought and yelled and played and had scabs on their knees. In the end they all died.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Friday, Children, Sunday

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• Once upon a time I would’ve leaped at the rare opportunity of curling up with Mom on the couch. But now it sort of felt like too little too late. I had someone else waiting for me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mom, Opportunity, Waiting

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.156, Scholastic Inc.

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• Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Years, Names, Instinct

  "Looking back on New Labour" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2010.

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• It's always made me feel odd when I'd get a Dove Award for an instrumental album that has nothing to do with gospel. When I think of gospel music, I think of spreading the Good News with words. But maybe it's just because I was heralded once upon a time as one of theirs. The category of instrumental music seems sort of important to the big picture, but I felt a little embarrassed at the same time.

  Phil Keaggy

  Thinking, Awards, Important

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• Once upon a time, an editor could try out one or two wacky books, knowing full well that their list would counterbalance any risk with a stable of best-sellers and safe bets. Nowadays, every book must earn its own bread. With low overheads and an often episodic operating status, the small independent press is nicely placed to snap up the most innovative literature going at the moment. To take the risks. Meaning that small presses are no longer just outfits set up to publish your or your friends' work. They have something genuinely important to offer.

  Andrew Latimer

  Book, Independent, Risk

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• People often ask authors where their ideas come from, and often authors say they don't know. But I do know about this one. Once upon a time, my wife and I had three small children -- two boys and a girl, just like in the story. And when they were young, we used to tell them a story very like YOU'RE ALL MY FAVORITES.

  Sam McBratney

  Girl, Children, Boys

  Sam McBratney (2007). “You're all my favorites”

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• There's a simple way to look at gender: Once upon a time, someone drew a line in the sans of culture and proclaimed with great self-importance, 'On this site, you are a man; on the other side, you are a woman.' It's time for the winds of change to blow that line away. Simple.

  Kate Bornstein

  Blow, Simple, Men

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• In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for touch, for simple conversation, for human contact, for love. I was an anoretic because I was afraid of being human. Implicit in human contact is the exposure of the self, the interaction of the selves. The self I'd had, once upon a time, was too much. Now there was no self at all. I was a blank.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Fear, Sleep, Simple

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• Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other." Pg 225

  Lauren DeStefano

  Children, Two, House

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• I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

  John Sayles

  Mean, Independent, Used

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

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• Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Children, Long, Wicked

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov (Book Two, Chapter "Flight"), 1967.

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• Once upon a time, I believe it was a Tuesday when I caught your eye, we got onto something, I hold on to the night. You looked me in the eye and told me you loved me. Were you just kidding, cuz it seems to me, this thing is breaking down we almost never speak. I don't feel welcome anymore. Baby what happened please tell me cuz one second is perfect now you're halfway out the door. And I stood at the phone, you still haven't called. And you feel so below you, can't feel nothing at all. And I flashback to when he said forever and always.

  Taylor Swift

  Baby, Believe, Eye

  "Forever and Always". Song by Taylor Swift, 2008.

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• Once upon a time the English knew who they were.

  Anna Pavlova

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• So the president is like, "Well, once upon a time it was Congress's job to decide whether or not we attacked countries, so let's let them decide." Which is funny, because, as we all know, if Congress were on fire, Congress could not pass the "Pour Water on Congress Act".

  Hank Green

  Country, Jobs, Fire

  YouTube Channel "vlogbrothers"/"Syria in Five Minutes", www.youtube.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.

  A. A. Gill

  Happy Life, Important Choices, History

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• When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Echoes, Fiction, Shapes

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• Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless you lived in New York, so there wasn't as much pressure to present a respectable exterior. And secondly, there was no social media. So if you were found face down on the floor - people did do that quite a bit; usually men, but not always - or fell through plate glass windows or got into scrapes, it became a rumor, and rumors are hard to pin down.

  Margaret Atwood

  New York, Couple, Writing

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• It is really sad for the new artists. Where's the next Elvis, where's the next Beatles, where's the Zeppelin? They're out there but they don't have a chance because once upon a time we [musicians of the 60s] had record companies, and they would support you and have point of purchase material and they would give you advances. In other words, they gave you the air to breathe to find yourself and spend the time to learn how to run.

  Gene Simmons

  Running, Artist, Support You

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Writing, Matter, Storytelling

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• You know, the usual story. Once upon a time I was playing my harp by a spring when a fairy appeared out of nowhere, handed me a Beretta Model 92, and told me to shoot the white rabbit over there for target practice.

  Haruki Murakami

  Spring, Practice, White

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.99, Random House

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