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
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
Irwin Shaw
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
Danica Patrick
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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.
Warren Farrell
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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?
Tamara Tunie
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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.
M.I.A.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
O. Henry
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Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
Jim Wallis
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As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost Cause' emphasis on the Confederacy. I used to play Civil War soldiers with my brothers as a child, and my older brother always insisted that he got to be Lee, and I got be Grant. I never knew that Grant won until quite some time had passed.
Drew Gilpin Faust
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If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.
Muhammad Ali
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As enjoyable as it is when you're just writing and getting feedback from family members, it's 10 times more enjoyable, or 100 times more enjoyable, when you actually start getting paid for it, and people start reading your books, and once in a while you get a good review.
Arthur Slade
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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.
P. L. Travers
