P.L. Travers Quotes
The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.
All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.
If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then we’re going to have to start with children.
When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.
There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.
It was like a miracle. I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital.
There has to be a certain amount of love just in order for you to survive together. I think a lot of groups have gone down the tubes because they were not able to relate to one another.
Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?
Looking out at this quarter of a million people,... I truly believed, at that moment, it was possible that human beings could join together to make a positive social change.
And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit.
It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.
I was raised on Josh White, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. The music was everywhere. You'd go to a party at somebody's apartment and there would be fifty people there, singing well into the night.
No movie can be a downer that fills you with pure exhilaration. You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic.
Zach Galifianakis is a comic force of nature! He is terrific. He digs down here and delivers a beautifully nuanced performance that gets under your skin. Just like the movie.
The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same end.
If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.
We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean.
We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.
Farmiga proves as fearless a director as she is an actress. She lights up Higher Ground.
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.
Redford builds a riveting, resonant political thriller that values the complexity of its characters and the intelligence of its audience.
Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.
Rashida Jones is simply glorious. Andy Samberg shines in a grounded performance that digs deep, sharply funny and touching, a breath of fresh comic air!
Kevin Kline gives a master class in acting. He finds every nuance of mirth and melancholy in this wonder of a role and rides it to glory. You can't take your eyes off him.
I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
I think the idea of Mary Poppins has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.