Emma Layne's Reviews > Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

“I know that I am—all that I am.
And all that I am
is full and ripe.
 
All that I am is standing still,
waiting and watching
and bursting with life.
 
Holding the straining seams of my skin,
my passion and wit
and my sanity in.
 
Waiting for someone
to soothe and to say
“I understand. You’re home.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

“Dancers can look at a mirror, a writer can look at a page, and a painter can look at a canvas and see their work reflected back at them. But singers can only hear and feel what they are doing. After all the training, technique, use of breath, and placement of sound, it boils down to an emotional response to music and lyrics---and the way they touch one's heart and soul.”
― Julie Andrews, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

“I’ve come to realize that home is a feeling as much as it is a place; it is as much about loving what I do as being where I am.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

“home is a feeling as much as it is a place; it is as much about loving what I do as being where I am.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

“Dancers can look at a mirror, a writer can look at a page, and a painter can look at a canvas and see their work reflected back at them. But singers can only hear and feel what they are doing. After all the training, technique, use of breath, and placement of sound, it boils down to an emotional response to music and lyrics---and the way they touch one's heart and soul”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

“I think, when singing, one exposes one’s soul,” I said. “How so?” I struggled to explain. “Dancers can look at a mirror, a writer can look at a page, and a painter can look at a canvas and see their work reflected back at them. But singers can only hear and feel what they are doing. After all the training, technique, use of breath, and placement of sound, it boils down to an emotional response to music and lyrics—and the way they touch one’s heart and soul.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years