P. L. Travers Quotes
I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.
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Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.
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Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.
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I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.
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I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.
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These kind of places are a little bit more styled and a little bit more personal.
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I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!
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If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it suggests that there's a deep and profound hunger for a new politics to come forth. And a guy like him has been able to mobilize that and to reach certain parts of the hip-hop generation.
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
