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Ralph: Hey, sun came out again. P.L. Travers: You say it as if you're surprised. As if the sun were particular about for whom it appears. It seems that you think that I am responsible for its miraculous dawning every day. For heaven's sake, it's California. Ralph: Certainly is. P.L. Travers: I'd so much rather be accountable for the rain. Ralph: Oh, that's sad. P.L. Travers: Sad is entirely the wrong emotion. I shan't bother explaining why. It would just... zip! Ralph: Okey dokey. P.L. Travers: The rain brings life. Ralph: So does the sun. P.L. Travers: [looks at Ralph] Be quiet. Ralph: Yes, ma'am.

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Don DaGradi: So, this is the rest of your team. Dick and Bob Sherman, music and lyrics. Boys, this is the one and only Mrs. P.L. Travers, the creator of our beloved Mary! P.L. Travers: Poppins. Don DaGradi: Who else? P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins. Never, ever just Mary. [to the Shermans] It's a pleasure to meet you. I fear we shan't be acquainted for too long. Robert: Why is that? P.L. Travers: Because these books simply do not lend themselves to chirping and prancing. No, it's certainly not a musical. Now, where is Mr. Disney? I should so much like to get this started and finished as briskly as is humanly possible.

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Richard Sherman: [singing and playing the piano] Room here for everyone / Gather around / The constable's "responstible"! / Now how does that sound? P.L. Travers: Oh, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no! [Richard stops playing] "Responstible" is not a word. Richard Sherman: Uh, we made it up. P.L. Travers: Well, un-make it up. [Richard hides the music note sheet of "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"]

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Walt Disney: We can't make the picture without the color red. The film is set in London, for Pete's sake! P.L. Travers: And? Walt Disney: Well, there's buses, mailboxes, guards’ uniforms and things. Heck, even the English flag. P.L. Travers: I understand your predicament, Mr. Disney. I do. It's just… I don't know what it is, I'm suddenly very anti-red. I shan't be wearing it ever again. Walt Disney: Is this a test, Pamela? Are you requiring proof as to how much I want to make you happy, so we can create this beautiful thing together? P.L. Travers: I took you at your word, Mr. Disney, and it seems my first stipulation has been denied. There will be many more. So perhaps we should just call it quits and I... [takes out the rights] should hand you back these. Walt Disney: [faces the crew] All right. No red in the picture.

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Ralph: I got a kid. P.L. Travers: Most people do. Ralph: Jane. Yeah. Yeah. What a terrific kid. Beautiful little girl. She's got a lot of problems, though. She's handicapped, you know? She's in a wheelchair. See, and that's why I concern myself with the weather so much. Sunny day, she can sit outside in the garden. Rainy day, I gotta leave her cooped up inside. I worry about the future, but you can't do that. Only today. P.L. Travers: Mmm.

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Walt Disney: [on the phone] You know, you've never been to Disneyland, that's the happiest place on Earth. P.L. Travers: I cannot tell you how uninterested… no, positively sickened I am at the thought of going to see your dollar-printing machine. Walt Disney: Well, come on! When does anybody get to go to Disneyland with Walt Disney himself? P.L. Travers: Disappointments are to the soul what the thunderstorm is to the sky. [Walt hangs up angrily] Hello? Hello? [to herself] He hung up!

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Walt Disney: [at his favorite carousel in Disneyland] There's no greater joy than that seen through the eyes of a child, and there's a little bit of a child in all of us. P.L. Travers: Maybe in you, Mr. Disney, but certainly not in me. Walt Disney: Get on the horse, Pamela. Walt Disney: [while riding on one of the horses] The boys have had an idea for your Mr. Banks. I think it'll make you happy. P.L. Travers: You brought me all the way out here to tell me that? Walt Disney: No. I brought you all the way out here for monetary gain. Had a wager with the boys that I couldn't get you on a ride. I just won 20 bucks!

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Walt Disney: Please, sit down. P.L. Travers: [sternly] I shall not sit in the seat of a trickster, a fraudster, a sneak! Walt Disney: Pamela... P.L. Travers: Mrs. Travers, please! Walt Disney: [sighs] Mrs. Travers, what has you so upset now? P.L. Travers: Penguins! Penguins have very much upset me, Mr. Disney. Animated, dancing penguins! Now, you have seduced me with the music, Mr. Disney. Yes, you have. Those Sherman boys have quite turned my head. But I shall NOT be moved on the matter of cartoons, sir. Not...One...Inch! Walt Disney: It is a sequence. P.L. Travers: [walks closer to Walt’s deck] You promised me... You PROMISED me that this film would not be an animation!

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Ralph: It's been a real pleasure driving you, Mrs. Travers. P.L. Travers: No one likes a fibber. Ralph: Oh, no, no. I really have enjoyed it. I didn't know who you were at first. And then, guess what? P.L. Travers: You found out? Ralph: Well, I was telling my daughter all about my day and how I'm driving this nice writer lady, Mrs. Travers, for Mr. Disney, and, uh... P.L. Travers: And? Ralph: And... [fetches a copy of Mary Poppins from the car] ...she made me go to her bedroom and bring her this. I can't stop reading it, you know. I'm very slow, mind you, so... P.L. Travers: Would you like me to sign it? Ralph: Would you? P.L. Travers: I'd be honored. [taking the book] Let me see, now. [writing] "To Jane, and her dearest father..." I've just this moment realized I don't know your name. Ralph: Ralph. P.L. Travers: Pamela. You're the only American I've ever liked, Ralph. [finishes signing] Ralph: Oh...Well, may I ask why? P.L. Travers: No. [hands him back the book] Now, take this. [hands

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Walt Disney: [preparing tea] And a spoonful of sugar? P.L. Travers: No, I think I'll have whiskey.

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P.L. Travers: Come to change my mind, haven't you? Beat me into submission? Walt Disney: No, no. I've come because you misjudge me. P.L. Travers: How do I misjudge you? Walt Disney: You look at me and you see some kind of Hollywood King Midas. You think I've built an empire and I want your Mary Poppins as just another brick in my kingdom. P.L. Travers: And don't you? Walt Disney: Now, if that was all it was, would I have suckered up to a cranky, stubborn dame like you for twenty years? No, I would have saved myself an ulcer. No, you, uh, you expected me to disappoint you, so you made sure I did. Well, I think life disappoints you, Mrs. Travers. I think it's done that a lot, and I think Mary Poppins is the only person in your life who hasn't. P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins isn't real. Walt Disney: That's not true. No, no, no, no. She was as real as can be to my daughters, and to thousands of other children - adults, too. She's been there as a nighttime comfort to a heck of a lot of people.

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Walt Disney: It's all right, Mrs. Travers. It's alright. Mr. Banks is going to be all right, I promise. P.L. Travers: No, no. It's just that–– I can't… I can't abide cartoons.