I am an optimistic lady.
After all, children are children no matter their background.
A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Web.
It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.
The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.
When adversity hits, go out and learn something.
Dear Lady Gaga, thank you for the wonderful tribute. Oh my god, it really warmed my heart!
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.
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
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.
Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that’s going a bit too far, don’t you think?
All love shifts and changes...
My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you’re my only leading lady I’ve never slept with? I said, Well, please don’t tell everybody, it’s the worst image.
Well it’s all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes...
For the last time, you cannot wear that cropped fleece vest.
Mary Poppins is magical and fun.
I think of part of myself as a very passionate person, but I don’t think that comes across. I don’t know where it comes from, that reserve or veneer of British niceness. But it doesn’t bother me if other people don’t spot the passion. I know it’s there.
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.
If you’re lucky enough to be able to have therapy – because I know it’s very privileged – it gets rid of so much garbage and enables you to focus on what’s important. When I first went into analysis, my mother was absolutely horrified. She thought I’d be a loony!