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

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

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" I'd say just go with the flow. And I take my hat off to any mother out there who works full-time and raises a family as well. It's hard work. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 was a very sad little girl. "

" 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. "

" Actually, I had a lot of good people with me - my mother's sister did a lot of taking care of me, and I suppose I got more attention than my stepbrothers because at least I got to travel with my parents. "

" I've made my pact with the Lord for the next lifetime. I would love to be a first-class musician. A super one. "

" I miss singing with an orchestra because that's the most uplifting thing that I ever knew. It is just such a fabulous feeling. "

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

" 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 know I probably have a lot of rage in me that I don't show. But I'm not about to wallow in it or reveal it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You just don't know in life. Life knocks you about and pushes you over boundaries. But be ready. Do your homework; that's all I can say. "

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

" You're always changing your thoughts about things. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I turned down 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brody' with Maggie Smith. I think she got the Academy Award. "