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" I like - I actually love classical music very much. "
Julie Andrews
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" My voice needed oiling, and then it took off. "
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" I come from a long line of below-stairs maids and gardeners. Good ol' peasant stock. My mother and her sister made a quantum leap out of that life. Then I made another quantum leap. "
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" I was always told I was not pretty enough. "
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" I was a child prodigy who had a freak voice of something like four octaves. "
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" A lot of films seem to go to the lowest common denominator. "
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" Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing. "
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" You can't bring the arts too soon to kids. "
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" I do get a lot of gifts. I get a lot of things to sign, too. People do collect the memorabilia. Between 'Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music,' there were beautiful plates that they made, and I've signed a lot of them. "
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" I'd love to have a really flourishing vegetable garden, and I'd love to have a better area for a rose garden or a cutting garden, but I don't. You have to develop a garden in the way that it's meant to be developed. "
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" Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves. "
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" I've got a good right hook. "
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" 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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" You take any job that comes along, and if you're really lucky, the movie takes off. "
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" On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter. "
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" Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. "
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" I'm beginning to think that I like the behind-the-scenes work as much as I do in front of the camera as I get a little bit older. "
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Beginning
Work
" Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it. "
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" 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. "
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" Did you ever notice the color of Mary Poppins' petticoats? They were kind of orange and apricot and red. I think she had a secret life going on there. "
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" I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about. "
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" I turned down 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brody' with Maggie Smith. I think she got the Academy Award. "
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" My mum gave me pretty good genes in that department. She had gorgeous skin. That good English complexion. She never seemed to have a blemish that I knew of. "
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" I don't think I have the image that say, Judy Garland has, or Bette Davis. "
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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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" 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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" I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means. "
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" I do wish somewhere there was a film of our stage production of 'My Fair Lady.' "
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" Programs that bring the arts to young kids are always the first to be cut. It's mind-boggling to me. "
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" Singing has been a cherished gift, and my inability to sing has been a devastating blow. "
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