Fairy Quotes

As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen.

Chris Van Allsburg

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You can get this feeling of the English or Scottish or Irish or Welsh fairy, but it is by nature very elusive. It would be possible to pin down a German fairy, but the English one just vanishes, becomes the shadow under the trees.

Susanna Clarke

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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

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I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.

Kit Williams

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Fairy tales cross generational lines, and how you respond to them depends on when in your life you're seeing them.

James Lapine

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What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page that's really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm.

Henry Selick

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Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

Eliza Cook

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I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.

Bethenny Frankel

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Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist shake up.

Sarah Pinborough

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Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.

Ransom Riggs

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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

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Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized.

Edward Carey

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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.

Pamela Anderson

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Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.

Jack Zipes

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I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

Gail Carson Levine

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The public has become my fairy godmother.

Eartha Kitt

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I have written two books that have to do with fairy godmothers: 'The Magic Touch' and 'Wishing on a Star.'

Jody Lynn Nye

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Casting directors are like these fairy godmother witches.

Merritt Wever

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I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

Trudi Canavan

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A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fairy. She's the pin-up girl of fairies. She's the ultimate fairy, but she's also got a mischievous spirit and she's very strong-willed. I think a lot of youngsters recognize themselves in Tinker Bell.

Michael Sheen

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A peace agreement isn't like a fairy story. You don't live happily ever after.

Jonathan Powell

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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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You should treat a muse like a fairy.

Paulo Coelho

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Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

Linn Ullmann

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