My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.
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MOLLIE KING Stop expecting fairness. Life isn't a fairy tale.
DAN WALDSCHMIDT For most people life is not a fairy tale, it is an adventure.
ANA MONNAR Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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ERIK CHRISTIAN HAUGAARD Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Once in a blue moon life is a fairy tale.
VICTORIA A.S.A BELLEROSE The fireplace is warm nook Penina Mezei’s house in fairy tale in which the "fairy-tale-in Jukebox"...
PENINA MEZEI Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers
HANS ANDERSEN Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers
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HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Fairy Tale: A horror story to prepare children for the newspapers.
UNKNOWN It's a fairy tale come true for him.
HINES WARD I want to have the fairy-tale life with a wife and three or four kids. It will come.
CRIS JUDD I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
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PAULO COELHO I couldn't be more excited for her. It's really a fairy-tale story.
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For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her ha...
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KATHERINE MCINTYRE Largely a bluff. A fairy tale.
VLADIMIR YEVSEYEV Sometimes life asks us to make more serious choices than whether or not to believe a fairy tale
CHRYSTAL VAUGHAN That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a h...
GENA SHOWALTER Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy t...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
UNKNOWN Once in awhile,
Right in the middle of an ordinary life,
Love gives us a fairy tale.
OLASOT It's a huge relief. It's a fairy tale ending, it's everything I could ever ask for.
BRANDON LOW Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.
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JOHN STAMOS To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.
NELLY SACHS ah, life—
the thing
that happens
to us
while we’re off
somewhere else AMANDA LOVELACE I made a list of things I wanted to do with my life, but it ended up mostly being a list of books I ...
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TERRY PRATCHETT This is fun. I couldn't have scripted it this way. I'm just hoping for a fairy tale ending.
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RACHEL COHN East of the sun and west of the moon.
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MIKE MYERS These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
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REGINA DOMAN My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, ...
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ANDREW LANG And then they lived happily, and we who hear the story are happier still.
ANDREW LANG You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors.
TOBA BETA This is not your mom’s fairy tale.'
From a review of my novel, 'Course of Mirrors.
ASHEN VENEMA Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.
ERIN MORGENSTERN I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing....
JOHN STAMOS What Grimm fairy tale featured apiarian morphing humans?
SOLANGE NICOLE So there you have it--my sorry tale. That's how something I though I controlled ended up controlling...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN The fairy-tale continues, it's unbelievable what they did. It's a true miracle,
OTTO REHHAGEL As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own re...
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TERRI WINDLING [As in the fairy tale,] Chicken Little ... The sky is falling.
ZACH BRAFF Sometimes the hero of the fairy tale isn't a handsome prince. Sometimes it's you.
ZOE SUGG If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
DANIELLE STEEL I wanted to make a resource for families making end-of-life decisions. I ended up making two videos,...
ERICA ROTHMAN Not exactly a fairy-tale ending, was it? But it was close.
BILL MOTT Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the m...
AMANDA ELIASCH It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equip...
NEIL GAIMAN The joy we feel to be together seems worthy of a fairy tale, from the moment our eyes met we felt th...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love-gift of a fairy tale.
LEWIS CARROLL As cynical as I can be, there's always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale.
LILY JAMES Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
EUGENE O'NEILL Did I ever tell you the difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern one?" she asked him,...
ERIN MCCARTHY Children are more able to objectively synthesize a story involving vampires, monsters, or dragons du...
JOSEPH ABBRUSCATO It's a fairy tale come true, ain't it? And she's got great legs. What more can you ask for?
DAVID ROSENTHAL There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard ...
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
ALICE HOFFMAN Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.
ALEX FLINN (fairy tale).
i wanna tell you a joke
but it will be like the frog finds the princess ZELDA GIN The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips...
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JONATHAN CHEN What we have been seeing these days is not quite as encouraging as what we used to believe that in t...
JONATHAN CHEN Coexistence is not only possible, but beautiful.
JONATHAN CHEN In a democracy, we expect the government to be tight-fit, transparent outfit that sticks to the body...
JONATHAN CHEN Democracy is a whole package of institutional course for arriving at political decisions. It encomp...
JONATHAN CHEN Democracy never guarantees the best to be elected. Democracy, as it is designed and when it is funct...
JONATHAN CHEN I have gradually come to a clear identification of the most essential qualities for personal being: ...
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