“I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen.”

— Julie Andrews

Saturday Evening Post (February 1980)
Context: I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me.

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