P. L. Travers Quotes
The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same end.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!
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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
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If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.
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My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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For me the visual is just as important as the music.
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The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same end.
