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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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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."
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"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible."
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"I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked."
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"I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good."
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"I wish I had a great relationship with my mother."
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"My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in."
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"I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one."
Childhood
"I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family."
Family
"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."
Time
"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."
People
"My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about."
Life
"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."
Mother
"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."
Time
"Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council."
Life
"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."
Music
"I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends."
Children
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