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" 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. "
Julie Andrews
Just
Never
Got
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" When one door closes, another window opens. "
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Door
Closes
" 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. "
Julie Andrews
Lady
Singer
I Am
" I don't think I have the image that say, Judy Garland has, or Bette Davis. "
Julie Andrews
Bette Davis
Think
Garland
" Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my earliest years. Its majesty centered me, calmed me, was a solace to a certain extent. "
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Me
River
Love
" 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
" Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside. "
Julie Andrews
You
Looking
Beautiful
" Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it. "
Julie Andrews
Sweet
Sometimes
Even
" 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. "
Julie Andrews
Think
Character
Lady
" 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'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. "
Julie Andrews
Camera
Beginning
Work
" I had a lot of learning on my feet. "
Julie Andrews
Had
Feet
Lot
" 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. "
Julie Andrews
Driving
Learning
Music
" My parents were in Vaudeville, in musical. And I would tour with them and had a couple of wonderfully lucky breaks in England. "
Julie Andrews
Breaks
Lucky
England
" I seem to be very busy, and I seem always to be working. "
Julie Andrews
Busy
Working
Always
" I was working from a very early age. "
Julie Andrews
Age
Early
Very Early Age
" 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 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. "
Julie Andrews
People
Sound
Pleasure
" 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. "
Julie Andrews
Better
Wish
Mother
" 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. "
Julie Andrews
Skin
Me
She
" The arts are usually the first thing to be cut in schools or regional programs. "
Julie Andrews
Arts
Thing
Cut
" Singing has never been particularly easy for me. "
Julie Andrews
Easy
Been
Me
" 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. "
Julie Andrews
Mother
Long
Life
" I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like. "
Julie Andrews
Audience
Think
Like
" By nature, I really am a fairly bouncy and sunny individual. "
Julie Andrews
Individual
Am
Sunny
" All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. "
Julie Andrews
Time
Changes
Know
" I'm the lucky lady that was asked to be in those wonderful iconic pieces. "
Julie Andrews
Lady
Iconic
Lucky
" 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. "
Julie Andrews
More
Good
Know
" I turned down 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brody' with Maggie Smith. I think she got the Academy Award. "
Julie Andrews
Got
Miss
She
" Let me put it this way: I can sing a hell of an 'Old Man River,' way down in the bass. "
Julie Andrews
Old Man
Down
River
" 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. "
Julie Andrews
Water
Always
Because