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Ugly Duckling Quotes

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
- Maeve Binchy

And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet.
- Russell Brand

In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something.
- Eva Green

In the story of Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized that he was a Swan. Each of us has something Special, a swan of some sort, hidden inside somewhere. But until we recognize that it's there, what can we do but splash around, treading water? The Wise are Who They Are. They work with what they've got and do what they can do.
- Benjamin Hoff

My duchess," James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. "She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.
- Eloisa James

There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.
- Criss Jami

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
- Nana Mouskouri

I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.
- Nicollette Sheridan

There are no ugly ducklings.
- Loretta Young

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