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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.' "

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

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

" 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 grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means. "

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" 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. "

" Singing has never been particularly easy for me. "

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" Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing. "

" 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. "

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

" Programs that bring the arts to young kids are always the first to be cut. It's mind-boggling to me. "

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" 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. "

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

" You take any job that comes along, and if you're really lucky, the movie takes off. "

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

" I think birth and motherhood are not things that you're trained to do. You might have a good example in your own mum, but nobody teaches you how to be a really great mum. "

" My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself. "

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

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" I hate the word wholesome. "

" I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect. "

" I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it. "

" I've got a good right hook. "

" 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. "

" My mother and stepfather were in Vaudeville. And my stepfather was an alcoholic. It was a lot of roller coaster times. But it's all I knew. I think they did the best they could under the circumstances, with me and all the family. "

" When one door closes, another window opens. "

" I am thrilled to be dame. It's one of those - the fact that you have been honored by your country is what it's all about, and it just feels good right there. "

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

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