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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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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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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If you want to beat Donald Trump - then you need to be the candidate that is not the establishment in your thinking, in the way you're presenting yourself.
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It's about creating an atmosphere so that characters can just live in front of the cameras. And to be sensitive, and for the actor to know the sensitivity that they are being observed with.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
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So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.
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I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
