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The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

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Julie Andrews
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
Actor
Film Actor
Film Actress
Music Director
Novelist
Screenwriter
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Presenter
Voice Actor
Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews
Julie Elizabeth Andrews
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Dame Julie Andrews
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The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.
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All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.
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Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.
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Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.
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Mary Poppins is magical and fun.
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If you can instill a love of reading in your children, they will be ahead of the curve at school and in their lives in general. Their imaginations will be stimulated. I thank heavens for the father that gave me that to begin with.
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I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.
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When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, What kind of opening do I want for this book?
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Beginnings are always hard.
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I don't want to be thought of as wholesome.
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I've got a good right hook.
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Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none.
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Miracles are happening every day. I do think that's true. If you can take the time to look. It took me a while to learn that, though some children know it instinctively and they do have wonder when they are kids. But the trouble is, as we grow older, we lose it.
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All I care about really is writing something worthwhile for children, something that will engage them in some way and stimulates in them a sense of wonder.
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For me, singing was always about the lyrics. I'm hopeless at singing songs that don't have a core.
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I suppose partially because of the success of the early movies and things like that, I began to realize, that children do look up to you in some way, and there is a responsibility for how you behave with them. I know that it's important to make them feel very valuable, not to talk down to them.
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I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.
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I feel an enormous responsibility to bridge the gap between England and America, and be a sort of very quiet ambassador for my country to try to sort of do a hands across the water thing where they understand England and English people understand Americans. I adore America.
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After all, children are children no matter their background.
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I miss singing very, very much, but the best thing is I have never been busier.
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