J. N. Andrews Quotes

Judging by the hard lines of his face and the flat look in his eyes, he'd left the Marines, but the Corps hadn't quite left him.

Yes, I co-wrote a song on the album called "Good Friend To Me" with Annie Roboff and Bekka Bramlett.

I love to watch movies, go swimming and just chill. Fun stuff relaxes me.

There was always something that meant more to you than me.

My books have three W's on them, which are "words," "wisdom," and "wonder." Words inevitably lead to wisdom, and wisdom inevitably leads to wonder and awe at this phenomenal world around us.

I think family matters to me enormously. In fact, family is the first priority. If my family is good, I can do anything. If they're not, I'm a basket case.

Well it's all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes.

As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.

You always do that with movie musicals. You prerecord and then you lip-synch to playback.

Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I'll look back and say, ‘God, wasn't it wonderful.’

The music and lyrics of Rodgers & Hammerstein connect seamlessly. Singing those beautiful songs was a joyous experience for me, and one that I will never forget.

I Google'd myself a lot of times believe me. A lot of people know more about me than I knew.

And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.

I always knew I had this voice, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I realized I had the power to do something with it.

I've been blessed to be at the right place at the right time.

As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off.

I don't want to be thought of as wholesome.

All I care about really is writing something worthwhile for children, something that will engage them in some way and stimulates in them a sense of wonder.

Unfortunately something always has to go by the wayside.

If you're tearing around in a panic about something, then it puts everyone else in a panic as well.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious! If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.

I've never minded being disciplined. I'd always rather have a quiet evening in than go to a wild party. Discipline for me has always been the foundation which leaves me free to fly.

I don't sing the way I used to, so I'm doing everything I can to put the word out that they shouldn't expect that.

When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of opening do I want for this book?"

I don't think I have the image that say, Judy Garland has, or Bette Davis.

Can I give them what they think they're going to get from me? That's always the big question.

I'm thrilled in a way because musicals should be preserved. It's mostly unique to America, and they give us so much joy.

I think I'm one of the very lucky ladies.

I work out as little as I can for as much gain as I can. Yoga and a little bit of ballet -- only 30 or 40 minutes every other day. I keep supple for myself more than for roles.

Mary Poppins is magical and fun.

I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does for awhile become family.

For the last time, you cannot wear that cropped fleece vest

I miss singing very, very much, but the best thing is I have never been busier.

I do ask myself sometimes, what am I doing writing about animals that talk like we do? But I guess it's okay if it brings across a point.

I'm never lonely when I'm writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really see them and know them and get to be friends with them.

I'm not going to go into operational matters, obviously.

Forty-seven years -- and I find I mind it less and less.

Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.

Technology and the internet have changed the world of publishing forever.

You have more issues than National Geographic by Austin LeFleur in Hissy Fit

And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.

People have souls, and we all accept that cities have souls, too. It's why the locations are so important.

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.

Lets just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.

The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.

I've always liked women who are older. They seem to know who they are, and they've lived. They've got soul, and that's very attractive.

Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.