Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
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Related Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art w... ADAM DAVIDSON I think some of it might be mental lapses, I think some of it might be they tried to rush. Early on ... DAN NOBBS The police think it was a hate crime, and I do believe that. I mean, they might have hate against me... CARLTON MILLER It was a good game for me, with the situation I was in. I think I did what they wanted me to do, so ... CODY GLENN This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b... STEPHEN R. COVEY I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library: A... BEVERLY CLEARY Fairy tales were the door to the world of imagination for me as a child, that land I often lived in ... REGAN WALKER I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. BEVERLY CLEARY Do you remember all of your audiences?" Marco asks. "Not all of them," Celia says. "But I reme... ERIN MORGENSTERN Of course, the reader might argue that I was as stubborn in my viewpoint as they were in theirs. Yes... ISAAC ASIMOV I think I have made a difference. I have meant a lot to my people. I have done well. They are proud ... CASTER SEMENYA As for fairy tales, he understood that they were reflections of the people who had spun them, and we... LAINI TAYLOR Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me ... TERRY PRATCHETT For a long time, sure, I was letting the pressure of being Rodney King get to me. It ain't easy.... RODNEY KING The people believe that those who do not think as they do are fools. For that reason, they take me f... JOSé RIZAL Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly. GINA GREENLEE People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, someth... KATE BERNHEIMER Stealing bases was put to me almost as a prerequisite for staying in the game. They didn't give ... LOU BROCK The recruiters came and talked with us in school, and I remember it like yesterday. I wasn't interes... STEPHEN DAU I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales a... AMY TAN I loved my soap days. I really loved them. A Martinez and Marcy Walker taught me how to act, basical... ALLY WALKER Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to p... KENNETH BRANAGH I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book review... DAVID BOWIE I realize that for all my penchant in believing that there's more to the world than what we can see,... CHARLES DE LINT The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decision... MARK ZUCKERBERG For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active a... JOHN MILTON I think one of the things the buddies didn't expect was for them (the partners) to do as much as the... MEREDITH BARRETT In general, I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so th... SLOANE CROSLEY It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A... ADAM BALDWIN We all believed it was a big joke. They went out on a limb and said it was real effect and it might ... WILLIAM MCCURDY Do. Then talk. In that order. SOTERO M LOPEZ II Johnny Carson was a big influence on me - all of those shows I did with him over the years, like, 10... DON RICKLES It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A... ADAM BALDWIN If therefore you shall be remembered for what you did with what you had more than what you had, use ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my p... REESE WITHERSPOON It made me feel like I was someone important. It was a nice feeling. They came out here to watch me ... LAURENCE MARONEY The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've neve... JACK KELLEY I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to ... JOYCE MEYER I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show the... ANTONIO DE MENDOZA My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, wa... DREE HEMINGWAY And what do they want!? DEYTH BANGER It was hard for them to fully accept me for the first couple of years. On the one hand, they told me... BEN WILSON I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of pe... MADELEINE PEYROUX I think that 'Degrassi' really challenged its actors. I was on it for seven years, and it wa... STACEY FARBER My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my f... KATE DICAMILLO Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days si... NEIL GAIMAN It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In... MEG CABOT I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and mo... DENIS O'HARE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an... CAMILLE SWEENEY I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to ch... MIKE MYERS "If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolera... C.S. LEWIS I'd had no eye on the theater at all [as a profession] until that moment, even though I'd been going... LYNN REDGRAVE The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—wh... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ It was a fairy tale, no fooling. It was unreality becoming real. This frightened her. Because people... RICHARD MATHESON I don't it really as a class system. I see it as those who are willing to do something that they wou... TWILA BRASE What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those be... UMBERTO ECO I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew... RACHEL CUSK 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my lif... KATE VOEGELE The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've ... JACK KELLEY When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a ... KATE BERNHEIMER Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was... TERRI WINDLING It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on wri... KATE BERNHEIMER I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and i... MATT HAIG I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor... WALTER BENJAMIN It didn't really feel as special as it should have felt scoring over 1,000 points. I think that was ... CAITLIN MALCOLM Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I kn... JOHN LOGAN There are people in my life who give me comfort when the going gets tough, as it invariably does. I ... ALEX TAN To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tell... BILL MAHER I don't really know how to explain it, ... I think that those are just the type of songs that I imag... DAVE GROHL That was a good example of us turning the ball over when we normally don't, then they made the shot.... BLAIR ALBRIGHT Don't think it. Do it! ANTHONY T. HINCKS That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and ... JACKY ICKX (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON I absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fair... DWAYNE JOHNSON Paul Hoffman had some initial suggestions and prompted us. Paul Hoffman was playing devil's advocate... DAVID BARNA Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and in... ANTHONY M. ESOLEN Drama made me happy. Being on stage made me feel alive. But I did what a lot of people do, and that&... EMUN ELLIOTT I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me fee... GEORGE LOPEZ It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If ... TERRY PRATCHETT To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that'... ROBBIE KAY It made me realize that I do need to be thankful for all the things I do have. It touched me. ... It... JENNIFER FRANKLIN Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to t... ANN BRASHARES We jumped out early on them and as I knew they would, they made their run. It was just a war out the... RICHARD DUEASE Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made pe... PATTI SMITH I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decid... SONIA SOTOMAYOR The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood: how shortsighted t... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There was a call made (by the umpires) to go over what happened, to make sure there was no confusion... CLINT BARMES Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well. MICHAEL ENDE As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What ... KURT MASUR It's a confidence booster for me to be known as a female who can take on any action, which is ni... RACHEL NICHOLS At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President T... PAUL HOFFMAN They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moo... BRYAN ROBSON It was a volunteer position and that was her whole life, it would take someone who had that time to ... CHERYL MAGNUSSEN As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being... JOHN LEGEND
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I was so proud of my teammates and everyone.... ANDREW HOFFMAN As long as it was close, I was going to bring it home, and I was going to win it. ANDREW HOFFMAN I don't need the trophy or ribbon to remind me of my accomplishments or anything. ANDREW HOFFMAN If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources... REID HOFFMAN The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive... PAUL HOFFMAN That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest. BETH HOFFMAN I want to do the best I can, since I made it, and just have fun. ANNELISE HOFFMAN I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time). ANNELISE HOFFMAN I don't really have a favorite event, I like them all. ANNELISE HOFFMAN We do more routines as the regional gets closer. ANNELISE HOFFMAN Our goal is to empower consumers. We're trying to give them the most up-to-date information possible... AMANDA HOFFMAN People are spending a long time on the site. They're looking at their own homes, their bosses' homes... AMANDA HOFFMAN We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate. AMANDA HOFFMAN Oh, my goodness. That may be a bug. AMANDA HOFFMAN We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit. AMANDA HOFFMAN All of this was public information; it was just really hard for the consumer to get. AMANDA HOFFMAN It's really designed to give you a starting point. If you're not feeling well, you can enter in your... AMANDA HOFFMAN You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimil... ABBIE HOFFMAN Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way dow... REID HOFFMAN The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. ... REID HOFFMAN