Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.
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Julie Andrews
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About Julie Andrews
Dame Julie Andrews is an English actress, singer and author. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, three Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards and nominations for three Tony Awards. One of the biggest box office draws of the 1960s, Andrews has been honoured with the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2022. She was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Julie AndrewsBehaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.
On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
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 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 helpe…
As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.
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.
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Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls tumbling, gushing.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
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 love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.'
My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
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 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.