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"George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again."
"I've fought this battle from her side. Pat Powers, he wanted the mouse and I didn't have a bean back then. He was this big terrifying New York producer and I was just a kid from Missouri with a sketch of Mickey, but it would've killed me to give him up. Honest to God, killed me. That mouse, he's family."
"[throws a plush Mickey Mouse off her bed] You can stay over there until you learn the art of subtlety."
"[sees a Winnie the Pooh doll in her room] Poor A. A. Milne."
"No, those aren't songs, they're recitations. She's not a giddy woman. She doesn't jig about. I mean, singing is frivolous. It is whole unnecessary in a governess, an educatress. No, it would s-simply ruin it. I won't have her turned into one of your silly cartoons."
"My point is that, unlike yourself, Mary Poppins is the very enemy of whimsy and sentiment. She's truthful. She doesn't sugarcoat the darkness in the world that these children will eventually, inevitably come to know. She prepares them for it. She deals in honesty. One must clean one's room; it will magically do it by itself! This entire script is flim-flam! Where is its heart? Where is its reality? Where... is the gravitas? [throws the script out the window] No weight, Mr. Disney."
"[sadly looks around at her home] I wanted to keep my house."
"Where her book ended, their story began."
"Behind the beloved book is a story beyond words."
"To bring Mary Poppins to life, he needs to work his magic."
"To Walt Disney, "Mary Poppins" was more than a book. To her, it was more than a movie."
"Emma Thompson - Pamela "P. L." Travers"
"Tom Hanks - Walt Disney"
"Colin Farrell - Travers Robert Goff"
"Ruth Wilson - Margaret Goff"
"Paul Giamatti - Ralph"
"Bradley Whitford - Don DaGradi"
"B. J. Novak - Robert B. Sherman"
"Jason Schwartzman - Richard M. Sherman"
"Kathy Baker - Tommie"
"Melanie Paxson - Dolly"
"Rachel Griffiths - Ellie"
"Ronan Vibert - Diarmuid Russell"
"Kristopher Kyer - Dick Van Dyke"
"Victoria Summer - Julie Andrews"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.