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.

P. L. Travers

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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.

  

  Fanny Burney
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• If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.

  

  Laura Moser
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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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• Everyone Instagrams all the people they are with. I get that it's part of the job. But there's a point where it's like, 'Can't you just be a person and have a separate life to your job?'

  

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• How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone.

  

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• If you try to go for a big two-hour nap, you get groggy. You wanna just nap, like close your eyes a little bit and then just fall asleep for a little bit and then get up. Then be like, "okay, I'm up."

  

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• My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.

  

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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.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Moving
  • Star
  • Tree