Tales Quotes - Page 39

• People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.

  Dan Chaon

  Writing, News Stories, People

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. February 15, 2012.

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• My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

  Joan Chen

  Fairy Tale, Moments, Passports

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

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• Cutting for Stone is nothing short of masterful -a riveting tale of love, medicine, and the complex dynamic of twin brothers. It is beautifully conceived and written. The settings are wonderfully pictorial. There is no doubt in my mind that Cutting for Stone will endure in the permanent literature of our time.

  Richard Selzer

  Brother, Cutting, Medicine

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• Intern is not just a gripping tale of becoming a doctor. It's also a courageous critique, a saga of an immigrant family living (at times a little uneasily) the American dream, and even a love story. A great read and a valuable addition to the literature—and I use the word advisedly—of medical training.

  Melvin Konner

  Dream, Doctors, Training

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• My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Father, Leaving, World

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• I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Perfect, Want, Fairy Tale

  "Exclusive: My lover by Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. July 5, 2005.

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• Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Divorce, Mean, Independence

  "What Girls Want" by Caitlin Flanagan, www.theatlantic.com. December, 2008.

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• I love cats. I have a lot of cat tales, ha ha, so to speak. A lot of my cats come to me. They show up at my house. I'm kind of a cat lady that way.

  Gina Gershon

  Cat, House, Way

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• You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Men, Long

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• If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Art, Media, Mind

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• If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.

  Tom Petty

  Games, Imagination, Nursery

  Song: Money Becomes King, Album: The Last DJ

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• 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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