Mary Martin Quotes
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The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.
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Neverland is the way I would like real life to be … timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic.
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Never, never, never can I say I had a frustrating childhood. It was all joy. Mother used to say she never had seen such a happy child - that I awakened each morning with a smile. I don’t remember that, but I do remember that I never wanted to go to bed, to go to sleep, for fear I’d miss something.
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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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Mother was the disciplinarian, but it was Daddy who could turn me into an angel with just one look.
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Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
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After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.
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Things can get very lovey and feasty with a bunch of stimulated hams.
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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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Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater.
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It was all role playing. I felt Larry was my little brother, Ben my big brother. Role playing was something I had known since I was born, but it wasn't a good basis for a marriage.
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Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do - creating.
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There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.
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You are my Peter Pan.
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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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I can't tell you the joy I felt in flying in that show … I loved it so. The freedom of spirit that was Peter Pan was suddenly there for me. I discovered I was happier in the air than on the ground.