Mary Martin Quotes

#1. Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

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#2. Sometimes I think that I cheated my own family and my closest friends by giving to audiences so much of the love I might have kept for them. But that's the way I was made; I truly don't think I could help it

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#3. We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365.

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#4. The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

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#5. I was seventeen years old, a married woman without real responsibilities, miserable about my mixed-up emotions, afraid there was something awfully wrong with me because I didn't enjoy being a wife. Worst of all, I didn't have enough to do.

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#6. Wishes are thoughts vibrant with life and eager for action.

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#7. My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born

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#8. Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do creating.

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#9. Even as a baby I quickly learned to crawl out of my crib ... They'd put up barriers but I learned how to go over them.

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#10. After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

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#11. There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

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#12. When you love others you aren't nervous.

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#13. Neverland is the way I would like real life to be ... timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic.

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#14. Mother was the disciplinarian, but it was Daddy who could turn me into an angel with just one look.

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#15. I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.

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#16. Things can get very lovey and feasty with a bunch of stimulated hams.

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#17. Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater.

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