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" I was a child prodigy who had a freak voice of something like four octaves. "

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" Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing. "

" I'm not very good with rap and things like that. "

" Our first visit to the Creature Shop is one of the days I will never, ever forget. There was just so much to see and admire and be gobsmacked by. "

" There's nothing like the joy of the arts, and promoting the arts early in children is going to give them such a start in life in a way. "

" I had toured around England endlessly throughout my teens, but when I came to the U.S. to perform on Broadway, that was a huge step. "

" I really feel very blessed, and I don't forget it, either; there's an awful lot of wonderful talent in this world, and I just seem to be in the right place at the right time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My parents were in Vaudeville, in musical. And I would tour with them and had a couple of wonderfully lucky breaks in England. "

" 'Simeon's Gift' is really - it's about a musician who - in the Middle Ages, who goes out to find his muse. "

" A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it. "

" All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time. "

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

" 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. "

" In my early years, I was much too ignorant and didn't realize how desperately important it all is, how really important the lyrics are. And for me as a singer, I am a lady who takes the lyrics first. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" Touring itself - and I was very young, and a lot of it I did by myself - it's lonely, but it does give you some kind of spine, I think. It does give you some kind of grit. "

" I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely. "

" 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. "

" I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities. "

" I do not knock 'Poppins' or 'The Sound of Music.' They gave me pleasure, and I know they've given a lot of people enormous pleasure. "

" When I've least expected it, an enormous opportunity or stroke of luck has crossed right under my nose. So I tell everybody, if you're passionate about what you do and you love it, do it. But do your homework. Because you'll never know when the opportunity is going to happen. "

" Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it. "

" 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. "

" I've long wanted to introduce children to the wonder of the arts. "

" I don't want to be thought of as wholesome. "

" If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing. "

" My voice needed oiling, and then it took off. "