P. L. Travers Quotes
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I'll tell you something, and this is true: I've never been able to write a film which I didn't respect. I just can't do it. I'm very happy about all the films I haven't done.
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A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'
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Good argument is intended to persuade another.
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.
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Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.
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That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
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When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)' book. I knew I wanted to have 100 stories in the book, so I wrote or edited two stories a week for a year.
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All the social things the consumer has gotten used to are being applied to business.
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All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.
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Music can tear me up inside.
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I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I would not like young people to ask this question, why were we born at all. I want them to ask every kind of question but for them to question why they have been born to a situation which does not assure them of their right to dignity and to freedom from want and from fear, that is not the kind of question I would want anyone to ask.
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The pressures facing Generation Z are different from those that faced older generations at the same age. For example, mass shootings simply did not happen with the same scale and frequency when I was in school.
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We'll never forget you, Mary Poppins!
