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My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport. -- Joan Chen
Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie. -- Colleen Atwood
I want to have the fairy-tale life with a wife and three or four kids. It will come. -- Cris Judd
Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering. -- Layne Staley
As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.' -- Kate Forsyth
Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se. -- Max Landis
Many still believe that conducting political and economic reforms at the same time is not an Asian way. But this is a fairy-tale. We broke that old stereotype by reforming our political, economic and social systems concurrently since 1990. -- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure rising from poverty in the Dominican Republic to the 55th floor above Chicago's Lake Shore Drive. -- Bill Dedman
I don't feel there's a difference between the real world and the fairy-tale world. They contain psychological truths and, I guess, projections of what the culture that tells them thinks about various things: men, women, aging, dying - the most basic aspects of being human. -- Helen Oyeyemi
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
In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. -- Savielly Tartakower
Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. -- Duane Gish
Evolution is a fairy tale for adults -- Paul Lemoine
Why can't love be a fairy tale? -- Amy Davis
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. -- Hans Christian Andersen
I want to believe in the fairy tale. -- Monica Murphy
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Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'. -- Jacob Burckhardt
Every affair is a fairy tale or a tragedy. -- Cherie Priest
This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws. -- Ilsa J. Bick
This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City. -- Alex Flinn
You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors. -- Toba Beta
Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction. -- Mark Hamill
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The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians. -- Dejan Stojanovic
...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince? -- Kate Morton
To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality. -- Nelly Sachs
It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for. -- Kim Kardashian
'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction. -- Mark Hamill
Make a fairy tale and go and live in it. -- Annabel Tollman
The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't. -- Lauren Beukes
Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars. -- Erin Morgenstern
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. -- Hans Christian Andersen
Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement. -- Welwyn Wilton Katz
You want the fairy tale." "I want a chance at it. -- Rachel Gibson
To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal. -- W. H. Auden
I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white. -- Paris Hilton
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in. -- W. H. Auden
Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after. -- Jennifer Aniston
In fact, you-he pointed his fork at me-look like a fairy tale. -- Isabel Gillies
Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale. -- Lewis Carroll
Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale. -- Alexander McQueen
The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
My life is a fairy tale. You could not make it up. -- Elio Di Rupo
Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece. -- Camille Saint-Saens
She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between -- Kristen Bell
Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. -- Alice Hoffman
Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. -- Jack Vance
Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale. -- Mollie King
If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future. -- Danielle Steel
The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale, -- Grace Kelly
These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. -- Diane Arbus
She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural) -- DJ Drama
Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes. -- Robert Lopez
So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were. -- Sarah Dessen
Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to. -- Phoebe Stone
Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK. -- Kim Kardashian
I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner. -- Elisabeth Rohm
At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power -- Susan Wiggs
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It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery. -- Charles Hard Townes
First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream. -- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either. -- George MacDonald
No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way. -- Catherynne M. Valente
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. -- Caitlin Flanagan
With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark. -- Cassandra Clare
I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.' -- John Lasseter
Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice. -- Amanda Eliasch
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. -- Marc Chagall
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. -- Charlotte Mason
Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches. -- Willa Cather
Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true. -- Cass Sunstein
Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch. -- Hans Christian Andersen
The film drama is the opium of the peopleâ?¦down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenariosâ?¦long live life as it is! -- Dziga Vertov
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it. -- Johann Georg Hamann
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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As cynical as I can be, there's always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale. -- Lily James
Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over. -- Diane von Furstenberg
That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after. -- Gena Showalter
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale. -- Peter S. Beagle
Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning. -- Sylvia Plath
I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really. -- Jennifer Ellison
I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do. -- Mary Russell Mitford
At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. -- Paulo Coelho
Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks. -- Garrison Keillor
A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar -- Angela Carter
You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that. -- Dorothy Hamill
I think, a secret love is something none of your friends would understand. And it's like a fairy tale, but more serious. -- Yunho
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. -- Jacob Burckhardt
Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes. -- Trina Schart Hyman
I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind. -- Heinrich Heine
Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. -- Azar Nafisi
It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything. -- Maureen Johnson
The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale. -- Paul Davies
As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale. -- Lily Collins
It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these -- Neil Gaiman
Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper. -- Amanda Hocking
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. -- Diane Arbus
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way. -- Joni Mitchell
I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale -- January Jones
She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen. -- Kate Forsyth
Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor. -- Albert Einstein
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. -- Klaus Kinski
He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale. -- Cheryl Strayed
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. -- Brian Eno
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Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don't recover from. -- Mira Grant
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies. -- Marc Bloch
Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality. -- Colleen Atwood
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Some stupid fairy tale charecter. Like a cheap plastic toy you'd get get by sending in the top of a lucky charms box plus $3.99 shipping and handling." -- Maryrose Wood
And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying. -- Meg Cabot

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