The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.
Joseph Jacobs
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The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.
Chris Farley
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When I was born, I was born very prematurely so I was very tiny and small. And so, my mom just nicknamed me Pixie, like a little fairy.
Pixie Lott
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'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.
Mark Hamill
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I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels.
Kenneth Branagh
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Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.
Jane Levy
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I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, who captured a lot of that very beautifully.
Hozier
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My life is a fairy tale. You could not make it up.
Elio Di Rupo
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What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel.
Charlie Cox
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One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.
Terri Windling
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All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.
Sandra Cisneros
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
Neil Gaiman
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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
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I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
Taran Killam
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
Lana Parrilla
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Andersen
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
A. S. Byatt
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'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.
Robert Gottlieb
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