Tales Quotes - Page 20

• The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Life, Progress, Expansion

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Fall, Loss

  Appendices to "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien,

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• As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn't really matter.

  Michael Fassbender

  Fun, Adventure, Trying

  "Fassbender on Fire" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I'm quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I'd love to have been in those.

  Dree Hemingway

  Dream, Sight, Perfect

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• I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

  Armie Hammer

  Reading, Kids, Fairy Tale

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

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• I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

  Margaret Haddix

  Kids, Facts, Strange

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• 'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.

  Mark Hamill

  Stars, War, Fiction

  "Mark Hamill on getting "That Obi-wan Mojo Going": New-Gen Panel at NYCC" by Laurel Woods, www.mtv.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.

  Robert Jordan

  Heart, Different, Culture

  "Robert Jordan chats about his 'Wheel of Time' series". Live chat, edition.cnn.com. December 12, 2000.

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• Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

  Neil Jordan

  Fairy Tale, Wells, Company

  Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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• How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson

  Aberjhani

  Peace, War, Sky

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.

  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

  Deep Understanding, Nannies, Thanks

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• I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

  Lana Parrilla

  Creepy, Fairy Tale, Scared

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

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• Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.

  Steven Rattner

  Eye, Pay Gap, Growing

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• I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy.

  Ken Salazar

  Thinking, Land, Energy

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• I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

  Rupert Sanders

  Essence, Darkness, Fairy Tale

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• Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Knights, Auditions, Projects

  "Introducing Shannyn Sossamon " by Smitri Mundhra, www.ign.com. May 11, 2001.

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• I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale.

  Juno Temple

  Different, Stories, Fairy Tale

  "Juno Temple Talks HORNS, SIN CITY 2 and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES at Sundance" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 28, 2013.

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• Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.

  Max Landis

  Dark, Fairy Tale, Pipers

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• Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Mean, Care, Fantasy

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• And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Different, Wake Up, Fairy Tale

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• This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.

  Alex Flinn

  New York, Cities, Fairy Tale

  Alex Flinn (2014). “Three Beastly Kendra Chronicles: Beastly, Lindy's Diary, Bewitching”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.

  Will Durant

  Islamic, Order, Civilization

  "Story of Civilization Our Oriental Heritage". Book by Will Durant, 1935.

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• It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don't want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they resent it. So they reject it and refuse to think about it. If they were merely indifferent it would be natural and understandable. But it is much stronger than that, much more positive. They are annoyed. Very odd, isn't it.

  Josephine Tey

  Thinking, Ideas, Annoyed

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• You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Males, Female, Lenses

  Jonathan Lethem (2014). “Dissident Gardens”, p.156, Random House

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• All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.

  George Gershwin

  Writing, Symphony, People

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