I think family matters to me enormously. In fact, family is the first priority. If my family is good, I can do anything. If they're not, I'm a basket case. Julie Andrews More Quotes by Julie Andrews More Quotes From Julie Andrews If I'm reading about a river or the trees or the wind blowing or the stars at night, if you can hear that in the music in some way, you've wedded the two and your imagination takes off. To be able to hear that in music is really important. Julie Andrews stars reading night I hope that when children read my stories that they evoke images for children. I four stories can help children use their own imaginations and lead them to act the stories out or to embark on related research, they will learn more and learn to love reading more. Julie Andrews reading imagination children I Google'd myself a lot of times believe me. A lot of people know more about me than I knew. Julie Andrews google believe people I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth. Julie Andrews julia grandmother two I hate the word wholesome. Julie Andrews i-hate hate 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. Julie Andrews important responsibility children It's all about giving back, helping people and encouraging people. I love to do that. Julie Andrews helping giving people 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. Julie Andrews males doe believe I was fortunate enough to work at the peak of the great golden age of musicals. And then for awhile, I think they were being advanced in different ways. Andrew Lloyd-Webber brought the rock beat to musicals; people tried different things. The joy of musicals is that there is no perfect recipe; it is what you throw into it. Julie Andrews rocks people thinking Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think? Julie Andrews backwards courses thinking As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off. Julie Andrews bed voice mother 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. Julie Andrews nun privacy thinking Well it's all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes. Julie Andrews cry helping sometimes In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game! Julie Andrews fun teacher jobs Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me. Julie Andrews gratitude heart joy Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing. Julie Andrews arena broadway singing After all, children are children no matter their background. Julie Andrews adoption matter children I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me. Julie Andrews uptight queens office My life has been so fortunate. I have had most extraordinary good fortune in my life. I sort of put it into three categories, the three major stepping stones. One being London Hippodrome theater stage debut when I was 12, when it started my career. The second being going to Broadway. And the third going to Hollywood. Each one of those happened under the most extraordinary circumstances. Julie Andrews extraordinary good-fortune circumstances The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's good and what's out there, they are very special. They have a kind of wisdom that a lot of people don't have. Julie Andrews teacher children people
