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Come what may, it will be interesting to see if Disney indeed quits making fairy-tales after the obvious success of its allegedly 'final fairy tale cartoon'.
Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office (01/02/11): Little Fockers, True Grit dominate New Year's weekend, family films stay above water. Scott Mendelson 2011
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I choose to believe in fairy-tales, I thought, walking alongside the three greatest cynics of our age.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Levy: Well, I think on this fairy-tales point that Dorothy is mentioning, just to elaborate a little further, because there's more to it than just that.
Obama vs. the Jets 2011
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Come what may, it will be interesting to see if Disney indeed quits making fairy-tales after the obvious success of its allegedly 'final fairy tale cartoon'.
Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office (01/02/11): Little Fockers, True Grit dominate New Year's weekend, family films stay above water. Scott Mendelson 2011
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Levy: Well, I think on this fairy-tales point that Dorothy is mentioning, just to elaborate a little further, because there's more to it than just that.
Obama vs. the Jets 2011
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A long time ago I used to believe in fairy-tales, and I still do.
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I feel fogged up with fairy-tales of love and dancing and castles, and a tall, lithe man who walks too quickly for me to ever keep up.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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I choose to believe in fairy-tales, I thought, walking alongside the three greatest cynics of our age.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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She started quizzing us on the plausibility of the existence of Santa Claus at age four, and when we told her what she already knew at six, she chided us for our fairy-tales.
Another Body Ryan Amfahr Longhorn 2011
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I used to believe in happy endings -- not in the way that things end in children's fairy-tales, but the way that they end in Reese Witherspoon movies -- when the pretty-but-down-to - earth girl gets to live happily ever after with the good guy, or when the person who is judged based on her appearance gets to, at the end of the movie, kick ass and graduate as the commencement speaker from Harvard.
Jim Downs: Between Earth and Heaven: Ode to Tyler Clementi Jim Downs 2010
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