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Maureen Forrester

"Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people."

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"Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council."
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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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