"Fairy tales were not my escape from reality……" — Terri Windling
"Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely."
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Terri Windling
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39 Quotes by Terri Windling
Terri Windling has 39 quotes on this site.
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The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it’s not a job for the faint of heart.…
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Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.
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In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore,…
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We’re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those…
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Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.
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I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.
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I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way…
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I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that…
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What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.
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I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.
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We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the…
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Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity…
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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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