Idina Menzel Quotes
That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
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Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.
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When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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'Sometimes I see signs on walls saying Kill the Rich,' Clem said. 'And sometimes Kill the Rich has been crossed out and Harm the Rich written underneath. A clear gain for civilization I would say. And the one that says Jean-Paul Sartre Is a Fartre. Something going on there, you must admit. Dim flicker of something. ...'
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That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
