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 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 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 really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
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I like a quiet life.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.
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The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.
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The Dice Man, 1971, p. 99.
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You choose your own reality and you - social media then amplifies those conspiracy theories. So that's why I say social media is itself a revolutionary phenomenon.
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Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
