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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Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.
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Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.
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Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.
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When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it.
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Green, the color of growth, or surgent life, enwraps the land. New green, still as individual as the plants themselves. Cool green, which will merge as the weeks pass, the Summer comes, into a canopy of shade of busy chlorophyll.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
