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" I love to prune my roses. That's the one thing I really feel I do pretty well. Other things I usually, because I travel so much, leave to my gardeners who know what I love. But I do love to prune them, because you forget everything else. It's like if you're a painter, you can forget everything else while you're doing it. "

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" I really feel very blessed, and I don't forget it, either; there's an awful lot of wonderful talent in this world, and I just seem to be in the right place at the right time. "

Julie Andrews

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Talent

Place

" I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble. "

" Social media has allowed groups, such as ISIL, to use the Internet to spot and assess potential recruits. With the widespread horizontal distribution of social media, terrorists can identify vulnerable individuals of all ages in the United States - spot, assess, recruit, and radicalize - either to travel or to conduct a homeland attack. "

" I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well. "

" A lot of films seem to go to the lowest common denominator. "

Julie Andrews

Films

Seem

" I think birth and motherhood are not things that you're trained to do. You might have a good example in your own mum, but nobody teaches you how to be a really great mum. "

" If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing. "

" I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees. "

" You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless it has a good lyric. "

" The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Travel

Last

Country

" I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Rough

Different

High

" I don't want to get back into the pressure cooker of play-by-play and worry about travel. I don't want to die in a stadium parking lot. "

" I love listening to music on holiday, and back in the old days, I used to travel with cassette tapes and a boombox. "

" I have always followed exactly what interests me and never really worried about the money. And when you think about it, to be able to travel the world... on an expense account and do exactly what interests you, it just doesn't get much better than that. "

" The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel. "

" I travel a lot. If you look at my suitcase, everything is extremely well-packed and well-folded; people who travel with me are impressed at how organized I am. Some would refer to me as a maniac for this. "

" I love getting oxygen facials because I travel a lot. My skin gets pretty dry with all the airplanes. "

" Who could have imagined that life would have taken such marvelous twists and turns or that I would often be so fortunate to be in the right place at the right time? "

" Sometimes you just want to get away and be normal for a few days. It's a treat to travel without your racket bag. "

" But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad. "

" To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. "

Charles Horton Cooley

Change

Self

Environment

" I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant. "

" Singing has been a cherished gift, and my inability to sing has been a devastating blow. "

" If you have a fear of flying, don't. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane. "

" I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, 'Oh, you'll get a much better education in life.' I did to some extent, though I always wish I could have tried it. "

" I do my best work alone. I travel alone a lot. "

" I've always seen the cup as half-full. "

" I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places. "

" A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from. "

" As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all. "