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The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated. -- Margaret Atwood
Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale' tells us, it is better to be feared if you can't be loved. -- Philip Zimbardo
Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces. -- Ivan Stoikov
the man eventually becomes what he dreams of"By T. Afsin Ilgar - Ted`s Tale -- T. Afsin Ilgar
The first game I actually bought myself with my own money was 'The Bard's Tale.' -- Markus Persson
Shark Tale feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation, -- Desson Thomson
When people ask me why is 'Winter's Tale' a fantasy, I point out that it is not a fantasy. -- Mark Helprin
I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do. -- Mary Russell Mitford
[As of November 17, 2006] 'Noelle's Treasure Tale' has remained at No. 3 on the New York Times children's best seller list since its October 10 release. -- Gloria Estefan
I absolutely knew that I wanted to play role-playing games when I saw a friend of mine playing 'Bard's Tale 2' on his Commodore 64. -- Chris Avellone
Haunted by demons of the past, hounded by demons not yet met, the nevermore and evermore left her little peace.~A Tale of Two Women -- Kimberly Kinrade
When I was a little girl, I thought I was Sydney Carton in Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' I don't think anyone else did. -- Amy Bloom
The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot. -- Jesse L. Martin
Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four. -- Rose McGowan
The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, "Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears." -- Kate DiCamillo
I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live. -- Bill de Blasio
Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan. -- Gary Ross
Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie. -- Shannyn Sossamon
The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse. -- Kate DiCamillo
I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read. -- George Brandis
When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure. -- Dermot Healy
My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.' My mom and dad are both in theater, so I grew up acting and being a little theater brat as well. -- Logan Marshall-Green
The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it. -- William Goldman
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. -- Hans Christian Andersen
Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does. -- Isak Dinesen
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. -- Hans Christian Andersen
I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white. -- Paris Hilton
If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future. -- Danielle Steel
The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. -- Adrienne Rich
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. -- William Shakespeare
Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK. -- Kim Kardashian
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Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen. -- Pindar
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary. -- Jacques Lacan
I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the picture-perfect fairy tale stuff. -- Selena Gomez
I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice. -- Howard Shore
Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre. -- Julia Roberts
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. -- Michel de Montaigne
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. -- Ralph Ellison
I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl. -- Amy Adams
I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little bit of the fairy tale. Let others photograph the ugliness of the world. I don't want to distress people. -- Leo McCarey
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based. -- Erin Morgenstern
I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them. -- Angelina Jolie
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book. -- Kate Bernheimer
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. -- William Shakespeare
Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism. -- Arnaud Desplechin
Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood. -- Olga Kurylenko
A tale in everything. -- William Wordsworth
Trust the tale, not the teller. -- David Knopfler
A false tale often betrays itself. -- Aesop
Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. -- William Shakespeare
Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. -- Duane Gish
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. -- Savielly Tartakower
Never trust the teller, trust the tale. -- D. H. Lawrence
What so tedious as a twice-told tale? -- Homer
Ever heard the tale of Neptune's Children? -- Mark Simo
Evolution is a fairy tale for adults -- Paul Lemoine
As one tale ends, so another begins. -- Jackie Chan
Every tale is not to be believed. -- Aesop
Why can't love be a fairy tale? -- Amy Davis
A drink is shorter than a tale -- Omar Khayyam
Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows. -- William Whitehead
A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour! -- Lord Byron
History is a tragedy, not a morality tale. -- I. F. Stone
All of mathematics is a tale about groups. -- Henri Poincare
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. -- William Shakespeare
History is a tragegy, not a morality tale. -- Christopher Hitchens
The tale is often wiser than the teller. -- Susan Fletcher
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I want to believe in the fairy tale. -- Monica Murphy
Every affair is a fairy tale or a tragedy. -- Cherie Priest
This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws. -- Ilsa J. Bick
It is the tale, not he who tells it. -- Stephen King
...a tale of too many cooks in the defence. -- Ian Brown
This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City. -- Alex Flinn
You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors. -- Toba Beta
A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure. -- John Grisham
There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale. -- Horace
Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'. -- Jacob Burckhardt
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale. -- Frank McCourt
Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction. -- Mark Hamill
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Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view. -- John Gay
'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction. -- Mark Hamill
A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid. -- Anatole France
...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince? -- Kate Morton
The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again. -- Homer
It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for. -- Kim Kardashian
Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end. -- Thomas Otway
Make a fairy tale and go and live in it. -- Annabel Tollman
The tale of a righteous leftist - THE BRAND DEMAND -- Johnny Worthen
The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians. -- Dejan Stojanovic
To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality. -- Nelly Sachs
I hate To tell again a tale once fully told. -- Homer
In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The ache of empty arms was an old tale to you. -- Sara Teasdale
The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't. -- Lauren Beukes
A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness. -- T.J. Stiles
You want the fairy tale." "I want a chance at it. -- Rachel Gibson
History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. -- Graydon Carter
Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars. -- Erin Morgenstern
Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement. -- Welwyn Wilton Katz
To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal. -- W. H. Auden
Let these eyes tell the tale until it is too late. -- Junaid e Mustafa
Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale. -- Mason Cooley
And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. -- John Milton
Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. -- Richard Branson
Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale. -- Lewis Carroll
One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism. -- John Avlon
The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale. -- R.J. Craddock
In fact, you-he pointed his fork at me-look like a fairy tale. -- Isabel Gillies
Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after. -- Jennifer Aniston
You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul -- Erin Morgenstern
Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale. -- Alexander McQueen
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in. -- W. H. Auden
A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go. -- Gelett Burgess

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