Idina Menzel Quotes
'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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I don't read books.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him.
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I didn't know how to throw a punch - why would I? Who knows how to throw a punch? Now I do it all the time, and it makes me feel strong.
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Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions.
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He told her she could live there as long as she wanted and pay rent. That's what they did.
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If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.
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'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
