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I was seventeen years old, a married woman without real responsibilities, miserable about my mixed-up emotions, afraid there was something awfully wrong with me because I didn’t enjoy being a wife. Worst of all, I didn't have enough to do.

— Mary Martin My Heart Belongs (1976)

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Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

I do remember that I never wanted to go to bed, to go to sleep, for fear I’d miss something.

My Heart Belongs (1976)

Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater.

Mary Martin : Broadway Legend (2008)

Neverland is the way I would like real life to be … timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic.

Mary Martin : Broadway Legend (2008)

Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do — creating.

My Heart Belongs (1976)

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