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Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.
Maureen Forrester
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Maureen Forrester
Age: 79 †
Born: 1930
Born: July 25
Died: 2010
Died: June 16
Actor
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Opera Singer
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Singer
Montreal
Quebec
Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester
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When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.
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I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me.
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It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.
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My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.
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I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.
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I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.
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If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do.
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Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.
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That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage.
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My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.
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Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.
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I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.
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