P. L. Travers Quotes
Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.
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But do remember that the most important risk factor for cancer is growing older. Most cancers occur in people over the age of 65.
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We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.
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Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.
