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I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.
The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.
I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.
Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.
I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.
Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.
Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.
My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.
I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.
In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.
Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper.
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
Fairy tales cross generational lines, and how you respond to them depends on when in your life you're seeing them.
My Grandpa Tony was a legend in our family, and also in his own mind. There's no end to the tales of his exploits.
This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.
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.
After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.
I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.
UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting.
Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.
Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.
All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.
The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting.
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 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.
It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.
I feel like the theme song to 'Duck Tales.' 'Life is like a hurricane; it's a duck blur.' That's absolutely what it is.
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.
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
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 will talk to people who say they loved 'Tales of the City' or 'Far and Away' or 'Love and Human Remains' or 'Barcelona.'
Like you see in the fairy tales, that's how it planned out in my head. Kids, little white picket fence, the American dream.
Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.
'For Those Who Can Tell No Tales' is a story of memory and the energy of places that remain full of drama, pain, and denial.
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.
Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them.