P. L. Travers Quotes

My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.

P. L. Travers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: australian
  • Birth: August 9, 1899 - April 23, 1996

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Nutrition makes me puke.

Jimmy Piersall

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Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.

Joan Blades

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I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

Maya Lin

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Colorado is known for many great things.

John Hickenlooper

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There is no excuse whatsoever for men to harass women in an abusive sexual manner. And, I am devastated that anyone should deem me capable of thinking otherwise.

Angela Lansbury

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There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.

Amy Grant

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I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Stephen King

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The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.

Stephen Sprouse

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I've always been obsessed with skincare, so representing Shiseido, the skincare powerhouse, is both an honour and a dream come true. I love the way my skin feels every day and every night using Shiseido products.

Sui He

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I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.

Slash

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Two of the first plays I saw after I arrived in Britain were 'King Lear' in Liverpool, and 'Antony and Cleopatra' at Stratford. One was produced with hardly a backdrop and the other with gigantic scene changes. I was impressed by what connected the two: the words and their life beyond the stage.

Romesh Gunesekera

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I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.

Mike D

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