P. L. Travers Quotes
I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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When you think of the 'Exorcist,' you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real.
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No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.
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It's easy to imagine that because a certain company has a prestigious reputation or everyone says it's a great place to work, that it will be the perfect fit for you. But, in reality, the search to find a career is a much more individual process.
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I think, whatever makes you happy in life, you gotta do it. You can't plan in life too much.
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I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
