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I just gravitate to those more testosterone-filled sort of parts than me playing something a bit more fairy-like.
I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.
Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.
I had a fairy shrine in my room, and I went to fairy LARPing camp, and I played Dungeons and Dragons in the woods.
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Fairy tales cross generational lines, and how you respond to them depends on when in your life you're seeing them.
If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.
I believe in elves and giants. I believe that fairy tales are nothing more than news reports of what once happened.
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
Indexing' is a police procedural about protecting the world from memetic incursions - which is to say, fairy tales.
I always wanted to be on 'Sesame Street,' that kind of a thing, puppets and fun and original songs and fairy tales.
When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.
Somehow the idea of Montgomery as a fairy doesn't have the same effect on me as it appears to have on you. -Raphael
I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.
I never even was in any of my high school plays. I mean, look at me. What role could they give me - the tooth fairy?
I played a bee! It was a Polish fairy tale we performed at school when I was seven or eight. I had wings fixed to me.
I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.
I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.
Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist shake up.
We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.
'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.
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.
I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!
Audience laughter, when it's deserved, acts as a sort of fairy dust that makes funny moments not just funny, but joyous.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.
Like you see in the fairy tales, that's how it planned out in my head. Kids, little white picket fence, the American dream.
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.
When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.
To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids.
I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to understand reality.
Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me.
Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.
I never heard the Gospel until I was 18 years old. Jesus Christ... the name was synonymous to me as the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus.
My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
I think it would be hard to find an American who, during their first week at Cambridge didn't genuinely feel like it was fairy tale.
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.
When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.
Fairy tales were great because they provided a no-limits playground for my imagination, and growing up, there's nothing more exciting.
Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.
When I was born, I was born very prematurely so I was very tiny and small. And so, my mom just nicknamed me Pixie, like a little fairy.
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.