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I never dreamed of so much happiness when I was the Ugly Duckling! -- Hans Christian Andersen
And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet. -- Russell Brand
There are no ugly ducklings. -- Loretta Young
In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something. -- Eva Green
I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much. -- Nicollette Sheridan
When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing. -- Nana Mouskouri
Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives. -- Maeve Binchy
I was always the ugly duckling; I never got attention from girls. -- Kid Cudi
Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me. -- Janis Ian
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks. -- Maeve Binchy
I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features. -- Audrey Hepburn
I grew up as the ugly duckling, they called me 'la prieta fea', which means ugly dark one - that was my nickname. -- Eva Longoria
Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make. -- Bonnie Raitt
There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same. -- Criss Jami
There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there. -- Stephanie Klein
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are. -- Baz Luhrmann
Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, 'I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling. -- Hans Christian Andersen
I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling. Always the duckling, never the swan. -- Haruki Murakami
Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it. -- Marie Dressler
What influenced my style was the feeling that I was a lousy artist... I was like the ugly duckling, not knowing what I was, style-wise, and thinking I was all on my own... I evolved into a style that couldn't be compared to anyone else. -- Jim Rowe
I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes... it was very Glee. -- Lindsay Pearce
Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling. -- Des Hanafin
Nobody really metamorphoses. Cinderella is always Cinderella, just in a nicer dress. The Ugly Duckling was always a swan, just a smaller version. And I bet the tadpole and the caterpillar still feel the same, even when they're jumping and flying, swimming and floating.Just like I am now. -- Holly Smale
I was considered an ugly duckling. -- Eartha Kitt
I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty. -- Tanya Roberts
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks. -- Maeve Binchy
There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems. -- Maeve Binchy
On the one hand, I always get the young ingenue, pretty parts. But I don't think of myself that way because I was an ugly duckling when I was growing up. I have to be reminded when I play a part sometimes that I'm playing the pretty girl. -- Amy Carlson
I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes... it was very 'Glee.' -- Lindsay Pearce
In America, there's a programme called 'The Swan.' They take 12 ugly people and call them 'ugly ducklings.' They spend six months and have everything done - plastic surgery, teeth, everything. And then they have this moment where their family is brought in, and they are revealed. It's scary. -- Trinny Woodall
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In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! -- Maeve Binchy
This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan. -- Barry Ritholtz

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