Idina Menzel Quotes
For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.
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You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
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Broadway is really my life.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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Make that extra effort for every relationship. Whether it's with your parents, your children, your husband or your friends. It makes a difference to them. I try to give my kids a lot of solo time where I play with them, talk to them, listen to them. Similarly, you give time for your workout. You slot a time for it, no matter what.
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I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
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Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
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For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.
