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I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.

I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.

I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my life. I had so much fun, I didn't want it to end.

Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.

The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.

The rare opportunity of writing music for a movie about the making of 'Mary Poppins' was impossible to ignore. The fact that it could provide emotional content in relief of the struggles that the Sherman brothers and Walt Disney endured was reason enough to take on the challenge.

I had an amazing childhood.

I had a very happy childhood.