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Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

~Andrew Davies

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My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Arabia Back Chain Chains Drawer Excite Fairy Fairy Tales Feather Find Give Gold Great India Knot Lighter Linked Me Might Mother Myths Shiny Smell Sweaty Tales Than Thin Tight Weight World Would You

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I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

~Armie Hammer

Topics: About Always Being Busy Fairy Fairy Tales Grew Kid Like Never Outside Reading Tales Too Up

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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Entire Fairy Fairy Tale Fairy Tales Great Library Read Reader Section Tale Tales Tried I Tried

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I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when you are happy yourself, can you make everyone else around you happy. I am still a dreamer and still believe in fairy tales, but there is only that much one should give another person. You need to keep something for yourself.

~Bipasha Basu

Topics: Am Another Around Believe Dreamer Else Everyone Everyone Else Fairy Fairy Tales Give Happy Keep Love Love Yourself Make Much Need Only Person Priority Should Something Still Tales Tell To Love Want Women You Yourself I Am

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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Bedtime Began Brothers Came Children Classic Down Every Fairy Fairy Tales Fast Gentle Kids Knows Like Lines Pace Pages Paragraphs Parent Praise Read Reading Slow Spark Stories Tales Through Too Used Whole Would

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I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.

~Carol Ann Duffy

Topics: Books Fairy Fairy Tales Left Picture Tales Writing

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Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they were kids just to see how it worked. To see what the world was made of. Well, when I was a kid, I took apart fairy tales to see how they worked. To see what the world was made of.

~Catherynne M. Valente

Topics: About Apart Every Fairy Fairy Tales He He Or She How Just Kid Kids Made Radio Science See She Tales Tell Took Tv Well Were Worked World You

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I believe in fairy tales. They are the basis of all our performance of storytelling and film-making - when we twist the real events of the world into something that offers us hope - and I believe in that.

~Charles Sturridge

Topics: Basis Believe Events Fairy Fairy Tales Film-Making Hope Offers Our Performance Real Something Storytelling Tales Twist Us World I Believe I Believe In

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God, people say 'Black Mirror' was horrible - it's nothing compared to the stuff that happens in 'Grimms' Fairy Tales.' It's mind-bending.

~Charlie Brooker

Topics: Black Compared Fairy Fairy Tales God Happens Horrible Mirror Nothing People People Say Say Stuff Tales

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