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

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" 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. "

" 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've always seen the cup as half-full. "

" 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. "

" I am an optimistic lady. "

" 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. "

" I'm just honored that some of my little contributions I've written with my daughter are doing well. "

" 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. "

" Singing has never been particularly easy for me. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same. "

" Our first visit to the Creature Shop is one of the days I will never, ever forget. There was just so much to see and admire and be gobsmacked by. "

" I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well. "

" 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. "

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

" There are elements of me in the roles I've played in the past. But people forget that Mary Poppins was just a role, too. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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've got a good right hook. "

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

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

" I hate the word wholesome. "

" 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 had a lot of learning on my feet. "