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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C.S. Lewis
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I`ve always loved the idea of fairy tales, but somehow I never managed to completely connect with them. What interests me is taking those classic images and themes and trying to contemporize them a bit. I believe folk tales and fairy tales have some sort ...
Tim Burton
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I`ve always loved the idea of fairy tales, but somehow I never managed to completely connect with them. What interests me is taking those classic images and themes and trying to contemporize them a bit. I believe folk tales and fairy tales have some sort ...
Tim Burton
Keywords: always :: and :: believe :: bit :: but :: classic :: completely :: connect :: contemporize :: fairy :: folk :: have :: idea :: images :: interests :: is :: loved :: managed :: me :: never :: of :: some :: somehow :: sort :: taking :: tales :: the :: them :: themes :: those :: to :: trying :: ve :: what :: withSource: imdb.com
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I`ve always loved the idea of fairy tales, but somehow I never managed to completely connect with them. What interests me is taking those classic images and themes and trying to contemporize them a bit. I believe folk tales and fairy tales have some sort ...
Tim Burton
Keywords: always :: and :: believe :: bit :: but :: classic :: completely :: connect :: contemporize :: fairy :: folk :: have :: idea :: images :: interests :: is :: loved :: managed :: me :: never :: of :: some :: somehow :: sort :: taking :: tales :: the :: them :: themes :: those :: to :: trying :: ve :: what :: withSource: imdb.com
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[describing his financial slump, after paying a huge default to leave The Monkees in 1969] "I had to start telling little tales to the tax man while they were putting tags on the furniture."
Michael Nesmith
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Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we`ve stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.
Emma Thompson
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I watch [Steven Spielberg] movies, and know: Those are fairy tales. I understand what he does. And I make a film on cancer and frogs - however I want that many spectators nevertheless! I find that is a good goal, and I consider it a weakness of mine that ...
Paul Anderson
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My parents are Irish, so there would be music, jokes, stories, tall tales and a musicality in it. We all tried to outdo each other, and my parents seemed to be reasonably amused by this. I don`t think they thought anybody would make a career out of it. Th...
Colm Feore
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Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it`s got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren`t innocent any more.
Neil Jordan
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While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.
Pat Brown
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While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn`t save anything.
Amit Singh
Keywords: anything :: as :: because :: book :: books :: but :: call :: can :: cautionary :: clearly :: country :: different :: direction :: doesn :: fiction :: fledging :: is :: it :: of :: parable :: save :: series :: serve :: tales :: the :: type :: while :: world :: wrote :: youSource: brainyquote.com
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Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.
Neil Jordan
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We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we`ve heard in fairy tales.
Yakov Smirnoff
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Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
Carroll O`Connor
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These tales will tell the truth about The Life; the sex, guns and cash; the brutal highs and short lives of the players on the streets.
Ann Caughman
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Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn`t a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.
Alfred Chuang
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The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.
Danny DeVito
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The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn`t always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they`re more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good.
Eric Brown
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The laundry has its hands on my dirty shirts, sheets, towels and tablecloths, and who knows what tales they tell.
Andy Law
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The festival is a wonderful event, bringing together Scotland`s finest storytellers and international guests for a programme of folk tales, performance and music.
Ann Dumas
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On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
Allison Gollust
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
Beverly Cleary
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I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
Akiko Morigami
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I still have to crack the French market, though that isn`t entirely surprising considering that the Sharpe novels are endless tales of French defeat.
Bernard Cornwell
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I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.
Suzanne Farrell
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I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.
Mike Myers
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I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.
Mike Myers
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I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.
Mike Myers
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I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I`ve covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that`s what this book started out t...
Bob Schieffer
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