Kate Bernheimer
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Choosing the Poe story was m... THOMAS CARON This story about that makes absolutely no sense. This is a story likened to a fairy tale in their ma... DION CUSTIS Story of civilization starts with reading, and story of creativity starts with writing MARYAM ABDULLAH ALNAYMI JULIA GLASS PAUL AUSTER I got a feeling that it's a root story, a fable, a fairy tale, that we all recognize subliminally pe... RICHARD O'BRIEN I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, t... LUCINDA RILEY DONALD MILLER The fireplace is warm nook Penina Mezei’s house in fairy tale in which the "fairy-tale-in Jukebox"... PENINA MEZEI A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value. ROY H. WILLIAMS RENEE AHDIEH The euphoric lust cloud is gone and once the smoke begins to clear, like in all good fairytales, the... TALI ALEXANDER JOYCE CAROL OATES I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library: A... BEVERLY CLEARY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are ca... PAUL HENDERSON UNKNOWN ALBERT EINSTEIN STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY GENA SHOWALTER Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questio... ALEX GRAVES STEPHEN CHBOSKY PAUL AUSTER It provides an opportunity for viewers to see a more in-depth coverage of the story and a more perso... ELIZABETH VARGAS Fairy-tales are nice. SYD BARRETT What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations are... CHARLIE COX Fairy tales were the door to the world of imagination for me as a child, that land I often lived in ... REGAN WALKER BOB BROWN Adults don't take fairy tales seriously but just see them as reading for children. I have found fert... DAISUKE TAKAHASHI When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales ar... PAUL HENDERSON NED VIZZINI KATE BERNHEIMER KATE BERNHEIMER ALICE HOFFMAN I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another. JULIE ORRINGER STEPHEN HAWKING The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty ... SHUKLA BOSE BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gna... BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK Everyone has a story inside them. Some are bedtimes stories, some thrill and others scare and horrif... C.K. WEBB When you hear the words 'magic' and 'story', they will probably evoke thoughts of yo... TONY DITERLIZZI ERALDO BANOVAC URSULA K. LE GUIN URSULA K. LEGUIN I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epi... WENDY DAVIS HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW DAVID SEDARIS MIKE MYERS BARRY RITHOLTZ Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the d... RACHEL HIGGINSON AMY SEDARIS
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It shouldn't be this hard, and it s... KATE Let's just lay in the grass, and look at the stars, and fall asleep in the middle of counting. KATE Better focus on what seems to be more important, then what make's me feel more alive...
But the thou... KATE Why do people get back in the box ?,
when deep down inside there isn't room enough.
And even though ... KATE Reading between the lines is supposed to lift you up, except when the message reminds you of the mis... KATE Tic tac, tic tac.
Three o clock, it's time to stop,
Thinking about what is not.
Tic tac, tic tac
May... KATE Being confused about you're own insecurity's, when other people turn out to be not what they seem, a... KATE Those little boxes people put you in, while they should try the other sizes... KATE Sometimes I forget how it feels to meet new people who are passionate about the same things.
But whe... KATE Glistening grains of sand, so soft and warm
being sleepless in the desert has it's charm.
A billion ... KATE Is it okay to lose you'reself once in a while.....
Maybe I am lost longer then I think.... KATE They won't chase me wen I walk away. Not worth chasing I gues,... so I'll just keep on walking alone... KATE No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.......
Now I know what I did wrong all the ti... KATE Don't approach someone with false intensions, especcialy when they are not good enough. Because ther... KATE My sore throath can't find my voice anywere, and my thought's can't find my sleep. KATE Time is precious....I would love to spend a day how I really want to spend it...or maybe a few.. KATE Back to the corner where you came from, and dim that little light, before it finally discover's how ... KATE I tried to stop the morning coming in so fast
Why is it impossible to make those silent moments last... KATE I need a whiskey (or 2) , a party, and some fun,
but it looks like I have to settle for less again. KATE You can listen to a song a thousand times, and then, suddenly, the lyrics kick in,.... like someone ... KATE If water would be running up,
would it wash away the spots,
underneath the places, where we usually ... KATE No one knows that a simple and calculated decision for the one with potential, is the final end of t... KATE LAUREN KATE KATE MIDDLETON KATE FORSYTH KATE MOSS KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON KATE KLISE Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doi... KATE ATKINSON KATE CHOPIN Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely ex... KATE GRENVILLE KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, ho... KATE WILLIAMS People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureh... KATE WILLIAMS When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box... KATE WILLIAMS I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors. KATE WILLIAMS One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think... KATE WILLIAMS I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it'... KATE WILLIAMS Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for the... KATE WILLIAMS I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women... KATE WILLIAMS The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and fri... KATE WILLIAMS Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history... KATE WILLIAMS I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting his... KATE WILLIAMS Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of oth... KATE WILLIAMS The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to t... KATE WILLIAMS Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and pa... KATE WILLIAMS I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems tha... KATE WILLIAMS Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth a... KATE WILLIAMS Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in pow... KATE WILLIAMS I like boxes because of the secrets they hide. KATE WILLIAMS The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or ... KATE WILLIAMS I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016... KATE WILLIAMS Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 m... KATE WILLIAMS Acting was all I ever really wanted to do. KATE WALSH For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, ... KATE WALSH Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if ... KATE WALSH I struggle with control. KATE WALSH I loved campaigning for Obama. KATE WALSH My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back. KATE WALSH I still like to make crank calls. KATE WALSH I would definitely love to be a parent. KATE WALSH No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' g... KATE WALSH There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture. KATE WALSH I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess. KATE WALSH I've done every diet there is. KATE WALSH Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes. KATE WALSH I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try! KATE WALSH You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you. KATE WALSH I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast canc... KATE WALSH I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead. KATE WALSH I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes. KATE WALSH I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day. KATE WALSH People always say you can't do a red lip if you have red hair but I've never shied away from... KATE WALSH I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice. KATE WALSH I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine. KATE WALSH I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel mor... KATE WALSH I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails. KATE WALSH I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of... KATE VOEGELE I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations.... KATE VOEGELE I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celeb... KATE VOEGELE I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete. KATE VOEGELE My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these song... KATE VOEGELE More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like i... KATE VOEGELE I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now ... 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Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... 
When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. 
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of... 
As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I... 
the story of his life, the inexhaustible, the fairy, the Arabian Nights story. 
Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion... 
What is the Other?" they ask.
I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm a... 
It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That ... 
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. ... 
at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power. 
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conqu... 
Each story provides a beginning, a middle and an end, the trick is, never seperate them through the ... 
Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them v... 
Uncertainty, in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful, but must be endured if we wish to... 
Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not t... 
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. 
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. 
There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writ... 
When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains o... 
He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. H... 
When I was a boy, my mother would tell me that one of the best things in life is the knowledge that ... 
Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude. 
Am I the same cold, ragged damp Sara? And to think I used to pretend and pretend and wish there were... 
Fairy Tale: A horror story to prepare children for the newspapers. 
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more inte... 
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... 
We Are All Infinite 
I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... 
Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth.
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the b... 
It provides the visual interpretation of how projectiles and powder from the storage magazines deep ... 
you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can... 
Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hu... 
In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a bo... 
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are... 
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid o... 
We die a day at a time 
A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales. 
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, make... 
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, make... 
A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this
particular! Some of them speak n... 
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneas... 
I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to ch... 
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is to... 
My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea m... 
As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in... 
Be fearless. Be glib. Be enigmatic. Read. Never give up. 
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... 
I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like... 
Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All... 
I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family; that there's no ... 
So the storm passed and every one was happy. 
I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy st... 
Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't tu... 
I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.' 
I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults. 
I hate to cook and love to eat. 
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading. 
I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry. 
I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beauti... 
Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality... 
In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and sti... 
The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penet...