P. L. Travers Quotes

I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.

P. L. Travers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastructure, access to natural resources, public health, our relationships across the globe, and many other aspects of life.

Matt Cartwright

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I don't really have guilty pleasures. I like what I like, and I don't worry too much about whether it's supposed to be cool or sophisticated or show that I have good or bad taste or whatever.

Ann Leckie

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I personally like to shop in person so I can feel the product.

Simon Spurr

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We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

Shirley Williams

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I've appreciated every winner. I love them all.

Tony McCoy

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The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.

Roger Ebert

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Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream.

Michael K. Powell

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I grew up in Southern California, Simi Valley. I've lived in the same house all my life.

Jason Dolley

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I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.

Jonathan Ames

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Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

William J. Clinton

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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Sydney J. Harris

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I've been misconstrued because I speak in a certain way. I find it obnoxious how it defines you, somehow limits your ability to understand the human condition. You can't be allowed near emotions; you play these curling-lipped, haughty characters. This awful label - 'the posh Toby Stephens' - I'm not posh!

Toby Stephens

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