Idina Menzel Quotes
They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

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When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
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A profoundly disturbing thing you discover very quickly traveling in Cuba is that the most dangerous person for Cubans isn't the police or even the secret police; it's their neighbor. Anyone can report you for anything 'outside' the revolution - even if you haven't done it yet.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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Whatever I write has to evolve around my taste in music at that moment, because that always changes.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.