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Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time. -- Jamie Dornan
Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh. -- Helena Bonham Carter
Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up. -- Kate Forsyth
Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story. -- Alice Hoffman
I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics. -- Mark Millar
A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy. -- Ai Weiwei
The thing is, fairytales were once a very gritty way for people to dialogue about aspects of life. -- Isobelle Carmody
I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think. -- Simon Schama
The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives. -- Kate Forsyth
In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales. -- Francis Ford Coppola
Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales. -- Carine Roitfeld
I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories. -- Juliet Marillier
I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books. -- Cornelia Funke
Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world. -- Mariella Frostrup
To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers. -- Kate Forsyth
The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids. -- Angelina Jolie
As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that. -- Kate Bernheimer
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice. -- Graham Joyce
The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess, Camilla Parker Bowles is cast as the wicked witch, Che Guevara is the revolutionary. Celebrities have become visual shorthand for narratives that shape our lives. -- Alison Jackson
Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears. -- Kate Forsyth
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She tasted of fairytales -- Laini Taylor
Story book endings, fairytales coming true. -- Carrie Underwood
I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka. -- Regina Spektor
The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales. -- Amos Oz
â?¦ for nightinggales - we know - canâ??t live on fairytales. -- Leo Tolstoy
Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can't afford to dither when it comes to using their brains. -- Robert Musil
I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic. -- Michael Jackson
Truly, there is magic in fairytales.For it takes but a simply-uttered 'Once upon a time' to allure and spellbind an audience. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
What's wonderful about Into The Woods is that you have a combination of all the most famous fairytales in this one story. -- Emily Blunt
Truly, there is magic in fairytales.For it takes but a simply-uttered 'Once upon a time...' to allure and spellbind an audience. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Fear can come across in absence of sharp corners, locked windows in hotel rooms, locks, passwords, security...fairytales (the type of storylines)...in fact everywhere. -- Martin Lindstrom
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In fairytales, when the mask came off, the handsome prince still loved the girl, no matter what -and that alone would turn her into a princess. -- Jodi Picoult
I think what's fun about the fairytales is just seeing what everybody interprets them as, which comes from the different directors and what they want to do with them. -- Colleen Atwood
It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how funny Og looked when he fell into the tar pit. -- Sol Saks
I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive. -- Gunter Brus

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