Idina Menzel Quotes
I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.
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I don't start a song with an idea of what ingredients are going to go into a song. It's not like a recipe. I will normally either talk from personal experience or I'll make a character and then try to allow that character to behave the way he or she naturally would.
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You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.
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I enjoyed playing, and I've got a full and happy life now, so it's not like I'm looking back longingly at my time in football.
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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
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After 'Mandy Lane,' I didn't really know what to do because I didn't know anyone who'd made a feature yet.
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I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.
