P. L. Travers Quotes
My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.
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I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish.
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I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.
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I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I've made. It's been very good having them on my side.
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I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on.
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My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.
