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" 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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" 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 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. "

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

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