"I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make……" — Maurice Sendak

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• The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the… — Kenneth Lay
• I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature… — Mary Russell Mitford
• William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at… — Marchette Chute
• Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and… — L. Frank Baum
• In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm… — Francis Ford Coppola
• A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I… — Roger Moore
• I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts… — Michael Morpurgo
• We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio. — Rob Sheffield
• As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that… — Jung Chang
• I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me. — J.R.R. Tolkien
• I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic. — Aimee Bender
• I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera. — Gian Carlo Menotti

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