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" I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on. "
Julie Andrews
She
I Am
Woman
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" My mother and stepfather were in Vaudeville. And my stepfather was an alcoholic. It was a lot of roller coaster times. But it's all I knew. I think they did the best they could under the circumstances, with me and all the family. "
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Family
Best
" A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it. "
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Worthy
Race
" 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. "
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Country
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" The arts are usually the first thing to be cut in schools or regional programs. "
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Thing
Cut
" When I did 'The Sound of Music' and 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Americanization of Emily,' all three were in the can and had not yet been released. So I was driving around having a fine time learning about how to make movies and enjoying myself enormously, and then they were released, and it was quite an assault, in a way. "
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Driving
Learning
Music
" Actually, I had a lot of good people with me - my mother's sister did a lot of taking care of me, and I suppose I got more attention than my stepbrothers because at least I got to travel with my parents. "
Julie Andrews
Mother
Parents
Sister
" I seem to be very busy, and I seem always to be working. "
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Busy
Working
Always
" Singing has been a cherished gift, and my inability to sing has been a devastating blow. "
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Gift
Singing
Sing
" I do wish somewhere there was a film of our stage production of 'My Fair Lady.' "
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Wish
Somewhere
Stage
" Who would have thought that a story about a professor of phonetics would result in it being probably one of the great shows ever for musical theatre? It's a seemingly odd subject. "
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Result
Thought
Theatre
" I don't want to be thought of as wholesome. "
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Wholesome
Want
Thought
" When you are traveling in vaudeville, you experience so many different kinds of audiences, depending on what time of the week it is, how long the pubs have been open, and things like that. "
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Week
Time
Open
" Much as I adore the melodies, I choose a song for what it has to say. "
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Adore
Song
Say
" 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. "
Julie Andrews
Know
Doing
You
" One of our books has been made into a musical, 'The Great American Mousical,' which I directed at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. And another, 'Simeon's Gift,' has been adapted for a symphony orchestra and five performers. I'm also a very proud member of the board of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. "
Julie Andrews
House
Proud
American
" I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like. "
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Audience
Think
Like
" I've always seen the cup as half-full. "
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Always
Seen
Cup
" I turned down 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brody' with Maggie Smith. I think she got the Academy Award. "
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Got
Miss
She
" I was working from a very early age. "
Julie Andrews
Age
Early
Very Early Age
" My mother was terribly important to me, and I know how much I yearned for her in my youth, but I don't think I truly trusted her. "
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Me
Mother
Youth
" Actually, what I did, because I couldn't make sense of it, and I have to have lyrics that make sense, I decided the best way to sing 'I Have Confidence' was to go completely nuts with panic and fear. "
Julie Andrews
Way
Go
Nuts
" I'm just honored that some of my little contributions I've written with my daughter are doing well. "
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Doing
Well
Daughter
" I love my garden. I love my privacy. I'm very fierce about it. I try not to let too many people into my home. That's my private place. "
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Try
Place
People
" I had a lot of learning on my feet. "
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Had
Feet
Lot
" I would be a fool to deny my own abilities. "
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Own
Fool
Deny
" On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter. "
Julie Andrews
Too Much
See
Person
" I did a lot of touring in my youth, and I learnt very quickly that giving is what it's all about. It's about the gift of making an audience feel great and forget their cares, if only for a few hours. "
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Forget
Youth
Great
" The loveliest roles, for me, have a growth arc - a beginning, a middle, and an end - and I'm always grateful when I can find one of those emotional journeys. "
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Grateful
Beginning
End
" Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves. "
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Wave
You
Hands
" 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? "
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Life
Right
Right Time