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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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.
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Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
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Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.
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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.
