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“It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.”

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The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.

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Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously…

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“It was only as part of the civilizing process that storytelling developed within the aristocratic and bourgeois homes, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…

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“As the literary fairy tale spread in France to every age group and every social class, it began to serve different functions, depending on…

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“Many bowdlerized versions indicated a Victorian-minded censorship, which feared that Little Red Riding Hood might some day break out, become a Bohemian, and live…

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Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.

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“The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and rearranged to…

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“Since these wonder tales have been with us for thousands of years and have undergone so many different changes in the oral tradition, it…

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Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

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Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must…

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The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening…

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The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

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People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience.

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We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the…

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Of all the jaw-droppingly beautiful women who've become genuine movie stars, none has had a longer film career (62 years), has been filmed in…

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Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.

Saint Augustine

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Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.

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The state is captive to vested interests.

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

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The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive. As diverse…

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Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Tracee Ellis Ross

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I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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