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.
From Maureen Forrester
I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.
It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.
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.
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.
Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.
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.
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.
I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.
I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.
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