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When I made 'Tales of Tacobella,' and I made 'Sugar Trap,' it was like people literally trying to say that like, either that they made it, or that they helped make it, and then they continued to try to steal the flow, try to steal the aesthetic of everything I tried to build. Rico Nasty
People Try Made Build Sugar Everything Say Tried Steal Like Tales Make Aesthetic Continue Trying Literally Either Then Trap Helped Flow
When you're leading Marines, you don't screw around, so the comedy is limited in uniform. And when you're a comedian, you can't be heavy handed and come across with tales of gore or material that people won't understand, so I try to keep them separate. Rob Riggle
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To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids. Robbie Kay
To Be Honest Think Related Those Kids Case Tales Sort Fairy Fairy Tales Lot Peter Peter Pan Pan Honest
I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live. Robert Jordan
You Heart Culture Live Others Draw About More Myths Tales How Cautionary Cultural Cultures Than Get Behave Same Legends Any Often Same Story Different Story Different Cultures Really Certain Should Many
Stuff that's truly off-trail was what appealed to 'Weird Tales' editors. Robert Weinberg
Weird Stuff Tales Editors Truly Appealed
Fantasy encompasses a wide, wide spectrum of writing. We have beast fables, we have gothics, we have tales of vampires and werewolves, and we have sword and sorcery; we have epics from Homer, and there is just so much out there that we put under the umbrella of 'fantasy.' Robin Hobb
Writing Beast Out Vampires Fables Put Tales Sorcery Werewolves Umbrella Just Fantasy Epics Much Homer Sword Wide Spectrum
I think it's really hard to draw a hard-and-fast line and say 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' doesn't count as science fiction or fantasy. Or at what point do we say mythology is not fantasy, so reading mythology when you're young does not count as an exposure to fantasy? Robin Hobb
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I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales. Roxane Gay
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Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well. Ryan Holiday
Success Failure Ego Some Tales Most Well Greatest Stories Certainly Many
In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known. Sabine Baring-Gould
Winter Son Old Father Men Every Tales Well Well Known Known Became Till Tradition Handed Families Brave Same Brave Men Stories
No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets. Sam Kean
Me Crazy People Shine Skin Babies Telling Carrying About Pockets Mercury Like Tales Make Around Does Mothers Gets Stories Them Then Element Floors Rubbing
All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence. Sandra Cisneros
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Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist shake up. Sarah Pinborough
Sweet Seven Shake Knew Tales Fairy Fairy Tales Surface Feminist Were Up Six Maybe Even Needed
There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there's something a little nostalgic about 'Grimm' and the fairy tales that they grew up with. And it's a very unique approach to the procedural side of things. Sasha Roiz
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Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them. Silas Weir Mitchell
Truth Only Myths Tales Fairly Because Grain Them
There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions. Stan Sakai
Funny History Animal Heroes Long Animals First Folk Long History Tales Narratives Were So-Called Literature Japanese Companions Many
Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark. Stephen Graham Jones
Dark Become Vampire Vampires Seduction Scary Longer Tales Tragic Romantic Figures Creature Largely
Celebrating historic triumphs is a favorite pastime for many Turks. Tales of how Turkic peoples emerged from Central Asia, crossed the steppes to Anatolia, established the Ottoman Empire and ruled for centuries over large swaths of Europe and Asia are the subject of countless legends, poems and books. Stephen Kinzer
People Books Ruled Favorite Emerged Crossed Triumphs Poems Countless Empire Over Tales How Subject Historic Celebrating Pastime Legends Established Central Asia Turks Centuries Europe Large Many
If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal. Susanne Bier
You Pretty Brutal Tales Look Fairy Fairy Tales Children Stories
I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be. Suzanne Farrell
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There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way. Terri Windling
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One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from. Terri Windling
Best You World Old Corner Find Folklore About Stuff Tales Fairy Fairy Tales Around Came Where Fantasy Old Stuff Right Things
Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave. Theodore Dreiser
You Man Soul Old Become Assure Hooked Mental He Tales Him Wives Fish Frighten Afterwards Then Slave
My fans are crazy, but in a good way. Very supportive, and some tweet me more like a 100 times a day. As for tour tales, I have a saying: 'What happens on tour stays on tour.' Tiesto
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Tink is the voice of the youth. I'm not one of those artists who talks about unrealistic things or fairy tales. I'm not talking about expensive things and cars. I'm actually talking about what's going on in my life and every teenager's life, too. Tink
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Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs. Tom Waits
Songs Road Goodbye Tales Most Cautionary
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