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.

P. L. Travers

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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.

Fleur East
- School
- Dad
- Day
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.

Natasha Trethewey
- People
- Bad
- Mother
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

Irwin Shaw
- Feel
- Need
- Sorry
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.

Gary Lineker
- Good
- Trying
- Help
I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

Pam Grier
- Movie
- Years
- Four
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

H. P. Lovecraft
- Strange
- Places
- Far