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" Some of my own books are being developed - one as a Broadway musical. "

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" And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy. "

" When I've least expected it, an enormous opportunity or stroke of luck has crossed right under my nose. So I tell everybody, if you're passionate about what you do and you love it, do it. But do your homework. Because you'll never know when the opportunity is going to happen. "

" I'm never sure one is exactly ready. You jump in, with both feet, into a very big fish pond. "

" I'd love to have a really flourishing vegetable garden, and I'd love to have a better area for a rose garden or a cutting garden, but I don't. You have to develop a garden in the way that it's meant to be developed. "

" How dare one act like a diva when you have a lot of work to do and you need to find your disciplines and so on? "

" I had toured around England endlessly throughout my teens, but when I came to the U.S. to perform on Broadway, that was a huge step. "

" 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. "

" The loveliest roles, for me, have a growth arc - a beginning, a middle, and an end - and I'm always grateful when I can find one of those emotional journeys. "

" On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter. "

" I'm the lucky lady that was asked to be in those wonderful iconic pieces. "

" You never start out being a star. "

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

" I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career. "

" I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being. "

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

" I like - I actually love classical music very much. "

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" I think any director is intimidating. "

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

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

" When one door closes, another window opens. "

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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. "

" I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me. "