P. L. Travers Quotes
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
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I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
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I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.
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I like music a lot.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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I don't like laziness or cutting corners.
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I never exercise, and I eat everything.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
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CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.
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I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.