#cinderella

We're from the ghetto. Venus is a ghetto Cinderella. People from the ghetto don't get nervous. ↗

— Richard Williams

#get #ghetto #nervous #people #venus

Privately he called them a couple of puffed-up, dressed-up, made-up, stuck-up, brainless parakeets. ↗

— Shirley Hughes

#humor #age

Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.' - All my old loves will be returned to me ↗

— Carolyn Turgeon

#beauty #cinderella #fairy-tale #french #godmother

I'm here!" I said..."I'm read to go home!" As if they couldn't see me. As if I couldn't remember what it had been like, fluttering next to someone's ear and whispering into it. How the whole earth was like a musical instrument that we could play effortlessly. ...I could not fly. My sister was not there. My heart was broken. ↗

— Carolyn Turgeon

#fairy #godmother #heart #heartbreak #wings

But at some point in her passage, the trees began to change. They stretched taller, and the soft, pale bark darkened, roughened. She put her hand to a tree and touched the lichen growing dark green upon brown, and it felt like old cork, dry and crumbling. Here the sun mellowed, took on the cast of late afternoon, and the shadows seemed to fall a bit longer; the forest had sunk into a deeper silence, magnifying what sounds did arise. The sudden, quick crash of a fox bounding through the brush was as loud as the slam of a great wooden door. ↗

— Malinda Lo

#forest #wood #change

I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals. ↗

— Zac Efron

#cinderella #disney #fundamentals #head #humming

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#audience #body #cinderella #coach #director

Someone at Disney heard one of the records and called me in to do the sounds of Lucifer the Cat in Cinderella. ↗

— June Foray

#cat #cinderella #disney #heard #me

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#arts #cinderella #dance #quite #ragged

Placing one last kiss over her heart, he lifted his head to find her staring at him with The Look—the one that told a guy when a woman was leaving Let’s Screw For Fun City and headed straight for Let’s Pick Out China Town—written all over her pretty face. ↗

— Gina L. Maxwell

#gina-l-maxwell #seducing-cinderella #love