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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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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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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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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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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I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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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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'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.
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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
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I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by the people it was loved by, but it didn't do well. In fairness to FX, they were just so generous in keeping it on the air the whole year.
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It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
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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.
