Tales Quotes - Page 35

• Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very primal, but it's also about profound things, the very nature of life and death and birth - about, essentially, a man who is resisting the most irresistible fact of all, that we will be shuffling off this mortal coil.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Men, Profound, Life And Death

  Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

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• If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Want, Fairy Tale

  Source: digitalseance.wordpress.com

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• Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

  Louis L'Amour

  Block, Book, Men

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• Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those-in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can't escape them, but once you have steered clear of them, give them the shortest shrift possible. Above all, try to avoid telling stories about the unjust treatment you received at their hands; avoid it no matter how receptive your audience may be. Tales of this sort extend the existence of your antagonists.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Self, Hands, Giving

  "On Grief and Reason: Essays". Book by Joseph Brodsky, 1995.

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• In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity... From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Book, Order, Land

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• Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older civilizations, or in accounts of solitary mystics, or in tales of science fiction writers - perhaps this will constitute the true revolution of the future. The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Lying, Civilization, Humanity

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• My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up.

  Irena A. Hoffman

  Dream, Growing Up, Reading

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• Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary tale. Emma is more than a character; she gives us an insight into human nature. With Emma, we are diving into the complexities of Flaubert's psyche.

  Sophie Barthes

  Character, Simple, Giving

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Home is a blueprint of memory...Finding home is crucial to the act of writing. Begin here. With what you know. With the tales you've told dozens of times...with the map you've already made in your heart. That's where the real home is: inside. If we carry that home with us all the time, we'll be able to take more risks. We can leave on wild excursions, knowing we'll return home.

  Georgia Heard

  Memories, Real, Home

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• The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

  Susanna Moodie

  Eye, People, Political

  Susanna Moodie, John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie (1968). “The Victoria magazine, 1847-1848”

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• I feel any time you enter a dream world it's like you're working out things, it's all inside your mind and you're working it out, be it Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, or the kids in Narnia, they go through this weird journey that's not real, and they're going through this journey psychologically. It's that journey of discovery, of getting onself together, that fantasy and fairy tales are so good at. And while some people still look upon them as completely unrealistic, for me they're more real than most things that are perceived as real.

  Tim Burton

  Dream, Real, Kids

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• I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

  Pamela Yates

  Struggle, Cinema, Use

  "LatinoBuzz: Pamela Yates on How Her Documentary Helped Jail a Guatemalan Dictator for Genocide" by Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. May 22, 2013.

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• It was an honor to work with Samantha Morton on this Casablanca-esque, silent-film-esque, Americana photobooth Woolworth's hay day period piece of surrealism/ realism/ story time tell-tale-ism, black and white 35 mm film, washed in strange light, over this love hate tune, heartbreak song, life-goes-on lullaby, The Last Goodbye. It's a doorway into the future of the fatal past-tense. Get it?

  Alison Mosshart

  Goodbye, Song, Hate

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• Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between

  Kristen Bell

  Fairy Tale, Happy Endings, Fairy

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• If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.

  Ned Rorem

  Strong, Book, Artist

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• Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are about surviving, and what you look like when you emerge from the trial. The reason we keep telling fairy tales over and over, that we need to keep telling them, is that the trials change. So the stories change too, and the heroines and villains and magical objects, to keep them true. Fairy tales are the closets where the world keeps its skeletons.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Skeletons, Needs, Looks

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• I am not a great believer in fairy tales. Every woman should fight hard for her own happy endings. Although occasionally it is nice to wake up as a princess.

  Donatella Versace

  Nice, Princess, Fighting

  "Designers' Costume Drama". www.harpersbazaar.com. August 26, 2008.

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• Birdscapes moves rather like those swallows, dipping and swerving to pick up all sorts of items of interest. Mynott tells plenty of good birding tales, but these serve mainly to set off trains of reflection. . . . Reading Birdscapes is like going birding with a learned, witty, and somewhat irreverent companion who isn't satisfied just to check things off. . . . [D]elightful to read on a journey or a housebound day, and [opens] fascinating new horizons for anyone who wants to enlarge his or her interest in birds.

  Robert O. Paxton

  Witty, Moving, Reading

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• Marx did not recognize that our desire to connect with a transcendent power runs even deeper than our drive for economic satisfaction. Each of us seeks. How we honor each other's search will tell the tale of the next millennium.

  Jeffrey Klein

  Running, Honor, Desire

  "Stepping On Sacred Ground" by Jeffrey Klein, www.motherjones.com. November/December 1997.

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• Ken & Mark weave a simple, compelling tale that contains profound truths. If only we all knew The Secret.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Simple, Profound, Secret

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• After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

  Lisa Jakub

  Children, Years, Careers

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• Each of us has a creation tale - how we came into this world. And I'll add this: each of us has an uncreation tale - how our lives came apart. That which undoes us. Sooner or later, it will claim you. Mark you. More than your creation.

  Michael Hainey

  Add, World, Creation

  Michael Hainey (2014). “After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

  Linn Ullmann

  Writing, Roles, Way

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• The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict nobly fought by responsible commanders and good American boys, who should not be tainted by the occasional mistakes of a few 'bad apples' in their midst.

  Nick Turse

  Mistake, Boys, Apples

  Nick Turse (2013). “Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam”, p.256, Macmillan

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• It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.

  Soman Chainani

  Real, Perfect, Fairy Tale

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