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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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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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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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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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.
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The raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth and death, joy and sorrow, loss and recovery.
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The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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Jews bear children not only because the carnal election of Abraham must continue. For Jews, raising children is essential to living a rounded ethical life.
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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.
