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'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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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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When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.
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One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
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I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.
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What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.
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There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
