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 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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Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.
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People are fucking nuts. This country is full of nitwits and assholes. You ever notice that? Nitwits, assholes, fuckups, scumbags, jerkoffs, and dipshits. And they all vote. In fact, sometimes you get the impression that they're the only ones who vote.
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I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.
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Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.
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And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
