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
Young, Bed, Very, Discouraged
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
Career, Incredible, Over, Leaps
I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.
- Maureen Forrester
Separated, Had, Though, Phenomenal
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
Deal, Very, Mahler, Phenomenal
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
Voice, Lovely, Always, Arranging
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
Play, Doing, Engaged, Play Baseball
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
Some, Over, Very, Hear
I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.
- Maureen Forrester
Childhood, Year, Wanderer
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
Give, Always, Very, Talented
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
Thought, Study, Tried, Give Me
Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.
- Maureen Forrester
My Life, Canada, Took, Council
I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.
- Maureen Forrester
Grandchildren, Three, Am, Hoping
Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.
- Maureen Forrester
Living, Other, Making, Making A Living
I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.
- Maureen Forrester
Born, I Was Born, Came, Montreal
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
Singing, Melodies, Very, Text
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
Better Person, Hardships, Anybody Else
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
Wait, By The Time, Looked, Streetcar
If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do.
- Maureen Forrester
Young, Singer, Always, Recommend
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