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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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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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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You know how screwed up censorship is, two girls just agreed to make out naked in front of their fathers, and we went wait, don't curse.
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In terms of my own experience, my dad is first-generation, so his parents were from China, and my mom was born and raised in southern Illinois, and she was involved in the arts. My dad's a doctor.
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In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.
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I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
