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" I was always told I was not pretty enough. "

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" I'm the lucky one who got asked to do 'The Sound of Music' and all the other lovely things that I did. "

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

" When one door closes, another window opens. "

" There are elements of me in the roles I've played in the past. But people forget that Mary Poppins was just a role, too. "

" I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying 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? "

" I'm just honored that some of my little contributions I've written with my daughter are doing well. "

" 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. "

" Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. "

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

" 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 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. "

" Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves. "

" Almost every morning when I go to the studio to work, I discover a fresh rose in the bud vase on my dressing table... one living and vital thing in a dusty arena of powder and tissue and matches and greasepaint. "

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

" I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, 'Oh, you'll get a much better education in life.' I did to some extent, though I always wish I could have tried it. "

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

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

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

" All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. "

" You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless it has a good lyric. "

" The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same. "

" I'm not very good with some of the more modern songs that have an awful lot of 'doo wah wahs,' if you know what I mean, because I can't do anything with them. "

" In my life, it would probably be giving birth to my daughter. That probably is the most, the thing that moved me the most, was the most memorable, the most wonderful, the most miraculous. I think a lot of women would probably feel that way, too. "

" Let me put it this way: I can sing a hell of an 'Old Man River,' way down in the bass. "

" For me, whenever I choose a song to sing, it's about the lyric first. "

" 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. "

" You never start out being a star. "

" 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. "