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" Singing has never been particularly easy for me. "

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

" When you are traveling in vaudeville, you experience so many different kinds of audiences, depending on what time of the week it is, how long the pubs have been open, and things like that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was working from a very early age. "

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

" 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? "

" Did you ever notice the color of Mary Poppins' petticoats? They were kind of orange and apricot and red. I think she had a secret life going on there. "

" I love that President and Mrs. Obama are embracing the arts. I am so delighted. "

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

" You can't bring the arts too soon to kids. "

" 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 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" If you've been fortunate enough to do a film that appeals to the entire family, that's the audience that's probably going to come back to you in something else. "

" I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like. "

" 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 am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on. "

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

" I don't think I have the image that say, Judy Garland has, or Bette Davis. "

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

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

" 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 play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about. "

" I was a very sad little girl. "

" 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. "