P. L. Travers Quotes
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
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Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must be a very nice person'.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
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I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.
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By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words.
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We have an epidemic of gun violence in America, and in trying to understand how that has happened, part of what we need to do is help equip our children to respond not with fear but with kindness. This has to be the way we go forward.
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Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
