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Maureen Forrester

"I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends."

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"I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends."

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"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."

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"More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart " more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi " more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton."

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"I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere."

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"I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school."

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"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us."

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"I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children."

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"Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can."

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"Children always turn to the light."

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"I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS."

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"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children."

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"I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one."
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"Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard."
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"Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses."
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"My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about."
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"After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world."
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"Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council."
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"By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line."
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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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"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 was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family."
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