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Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.
You’re just jealous of me because I’m a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian!
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really.
Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them
'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.
I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden
As cynical as I can be, there's always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale.
There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy.
Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.
I had to grow up fast because we know it's not all fairy tales out there; it's full of rubbish.
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.
No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.
I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.'
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the second world war.
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen.
When your daughter asks you to be a fairy for her 5th birthday party... you better be a damned fairy.
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.
I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in.
Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.
That's what I wanted 'Pirate Jenny' to be: a queer, revolutionary fairy tale for the people that I love.
Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.
God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.
I have written two books that have to do with fairy godmothers: 'The Magic Touch' and 'Wishing on a Star.'
I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.
I'm a fairy. I'd come and hear, "How was your day, honey?" And I'd be like, "I was a fairy. I don't know."
Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.
I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.
I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.
What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.
After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.
The bad mood fairy comes to annoy you only when you are actually in a good position, but don't yet realise it!
Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.
One of my favourite messages about 'The Pirate Fairy' is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.
Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.
I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.
In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.
'Granted' is about a lively young woman who does a fairy godmother a good turn and is given a wish as her reward.