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Tag Name "Tales" (803)

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The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.
Ray Bradbury
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The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That's why [Vladimir] Putin has to pursue an aggressive foreign policy, so he can serve his people the fairy tale of Russian pride and regaining its strength as a major power.
Garry Kasparov
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I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I'm quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I'd love to have been in those.
Dree Hemingway
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Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to.
Phoebe Stone
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Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect the outcome of this dreadful tale.
Mark Lynas
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Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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People read vampire novels and say, Oh I want to read another vampire novel. People read fantasy, and theyre like, Oh I love fantasy. I dont know that people are necessarily finishing Hunger Games and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale.
David Levithan
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I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.
Harold Pinter
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
Charles Lamb
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Richard Gavin is one of the bright new stars in contemporary weird fiction. His richly textured style, deft character portrayal, and powerful horrific conceptions make every one of his tales a pleasure to read.
S. T. Joshi
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He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Samuel Johnson
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Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?
Mark Slouka
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Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after.
Jennifer Aniston
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
Kate Atkinson
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If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Audrey Hepburn
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Besides, I'd heard too many Karen Carpenter tales at Gladstone PTA meetings, and they often took the form of boasts. The prestigious diagnosis of anorexia seemed much coveted not only by the students but by their mothers, who would compete over whose daughter ate less. No wonder the poor girls were a mess.
Lionel Shriver
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Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis about process, not pattern about tales, not tableaux about becoming, not being.
Henry Gee
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From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales.
Jeffrey Kluger
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She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.
Caleb Carr
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After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.
Lisa Jakub
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Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.
Marina Warner
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If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your History would become monotonous. But you must act with restraint. The world condemns liars who do nothing but lie, even about the most trivial things, and it rewards poets, who lie only about the greatest things.
Umberto Eco
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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
Adrienne Rich
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