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" I seem to be very busy, and I seem always to be working. "

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" I do wish somewhere there was a film of our stage production of 'My Fair Lady.' "

" 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. "

" On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter. "

" I think I'm just proudest to be the lady who was asked to play Mary Poppins. She's such a wonderful character, and there's so much tremendous talent out there. So I feel very lucky to be the one who got to play her. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't think I have the image that say, Judy Garland has, or Bette Davis. "

" As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually. "

" 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. "

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

" More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool. "

" I'm resilient, and I'm professional. "

" I did all of my learning on 'My Fair Lady.' "

" You can't bring the arts too soon to kids. "

" Truthfully, I mostly can be as private as I want. "

" The arts need funding. "

" The arts bridge cultures; they're good for the economy, and they're good for fostering empathy and decency. "

" 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. "

" I think every young girl at some point in her early life wonders what it's like to be a princess. They like the idea of dressing up and the fun of it. "

" 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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" I didn't know other children from divorced families, and I was a bit of a lost soul for a while. Then suddenly, I was performing. And it gave me an identity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does, for awhile, become family. "

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