Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin.
Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
I love to be in control of everything I do and everything around me. So that means, you give me a romantic lyric and I'll make the atmosphere, I will build on that. And then the song then becomes, it takes me to do the song, it's just a belief, it's just who I am.
It Might As Well Be Spring. . . I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.
What keeps me going is my children.
For a long time, way back in the ’30s and ’40s, there were fabulous female roles. Bette Davis and all those people had incredible, great roles. After World War II, something happened where it was not only "get out of the factories," but "get out of the movies. " That's when women's roles started to really [change].