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Famous Quotes By Maureen Forrester

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Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council. — Maureen Forrester

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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. — Maureen Forrester

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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. — Maureen Forrester

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

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I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me. — Maureen Forrester

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If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do. — Maureen Forrester

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It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes. — Maureen Forrester

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

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I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family. — Maureen Forrester

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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. — Maureen Forrester

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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. — Maureen Forrester

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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. — Maureen Forrester

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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. — Maureen Forrester

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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. — Maureen Forrester

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I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation. — Maureen Forrester

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I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20. — Maureen Forrester

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My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about. — Maureen Forrester

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I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one. — Maureen Forrester

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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. — Maureen Forrester